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Originally Posted by NuclearFart
Disagree completely. Not sure where your getting this information from, but, look at people with familial hypercholesterolemia diseases. They are genetically predisposed to having super high cholesterol levels, and get heart attacks in their early 30's.
And if you really want to get medical about it, its the whole reason why we break down cholesterol into HDL and LDL, because the latter has a much higher propensity to insert itself into the walls of your arteries, hence the atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis = narrowed arteries = heart attack. Furthermore, studies from the last ten years have shown a marked decrease in morbidity/mortality from heart disease from patients taking statins, also known as cholesterol lowering drugs.
Not much debate in my medical opionion.
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What you are saying is true, but it doesn't adress my argument.
"Dietary changes to achieve benefit have been more controversial, generally far less effective and less widely adhered to with success. One key reason for this is that most cholesterol, typically 80-90%, within the body is created and controlled by internal production by all cells in the body (true of all animals), with typically slightly greater relative production by hepatic/liver cells. (Cell structure relies on fat membranes to separate and organize intracellular water, proteins and nucleic acids and cholesterol is one of the components of all animal cell membranes.)"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheros...ry_supplements
Overall cholesterol levels do cause arthrosclerosis, but as the above paragraph shows there is no direct link between cholesterol in the diet and overall levels in the body. As a former student of science I read several papers on this topic. There was always a link between diet and arthrosclerosis, but never did the studies take into account obesity. The few studies that have taken this into account (those concerning eggs for example) do not show any conclusive results.
As for your argument on "familial hypercholesterolemia diseases", I'm not sure how that relates to the argument. Since that is a genetic cause and not dietary.
Basically, what I am saying is there is no conclusive proof on the subject yet. The body is filled w/ cholesterol naturally, adding small amounts through diet may have no effect. The body just compensates for this by producing less of its own. If you want to decrease the risk of heart disease and you are skinny decreasing intake may not help, since your body will compensate by producing more.