You Must Eat Cholesterol!

Hello Everyone,

The blessings and curses of television, media and free speech. We have to be discerning and feel the correctness of information.

This topic bears repeating - the topic of fat in your diet. Contrary to popular belief and common thought (USDA, televisions and possibly your doctor), eating cholesterol is imperative and here's why.

First you have to understand that we are supposed to be eating a balanced diet of non processed whole foods. Shall I repeat that? Yeah, I think I will. WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE EATING A BALANCED DIET OF NON PROCESSED WHOLE FOODS. There. I feel better. Oh, one more thing...WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE MOVING OUR BODIES AROUND! IN ACTION!
Now, I feel even better. So did you get those two very critical points?

1. Eat a balanced diet of whole foods, preferably fresh, and NOT PROCESSED
2. Get out of your chair, off the couch, and move it!

Ok. Next to explain why you need to eat cholesterol and fat. (When the fashion industry and every girl magazine will have you eating air popped popcorn morning, noon, and night.)

The liver, your liver, is a triage station. After you've eaten and the nutrition from that meal enters the blood stream (via the portal vein), the liver takes a head count. It's job is to see that a steady stream of sugar is always going to the brain, and not too much. When sugar enters the portal vein, insulin is released. Insulin is a hormone. If you've just eaten all carbs, here's what happens. The liver interprets this as a "flood" of sugar and starts processing it into

Energy
Triglycerides
Cholesterol
Glycogen

If you don't need energy at that moment, your body checks to see if you need to store some glycogen. If your glycogen stores are full, then your body turns that excess sugar into cholesterol. Cholesterol is used by your body to build hormones, membranes and other structures like triglycerides, which are fatty acids used for energy or fat storage.

A normal body eating a healthy balanced diet produces the right amounts of cholesterol and triglycerides, essential for health. ESSENTIAL for health.

Now, if you're not consuming cholesterol and you're mostly consuming way too many carbohydrates or doing something else to stimulate insulin production artificially (alcohol, phony sugars, etc.), your body malfunctions.

Now your body sees the deprivation of cholesterol as a famine. When your body perceives this as a famine, insulin then activates an enzyme in your liver called HMG Co-A Reductase that will over-produce cholesterol from the carbohydrates you eat. This is the plaque that ends up in your arteries. When you starve the body of dietary cholesterol, forcing it to make its own cholesterol, it over produces.

The body always responds to the over stimulation of insulin levels by over producing cholesterol.
It doesn't matter how the insulin level gets over stimulated, this is what happens: plaque in your arteries. (The Schwartzbein Principle, Diana Schwartzbein, MD)

So you're much better off eating a breakfast that has an egg and buttered toast, than a bowl of cereal with skim milk.

Other benefits of fat in the diet? Luxuriant hair and nails. Supple and moist skin. Great bowel movements.

So, get that fat back into your diet. All kinds. Remember, we're supposed to be eating from the complete array of foods on this planet. I particularly like olive oil and avocados. And one more thing, if you eat some fat at every meal, you'll notice immediately that your meal has staying power in the energy department. You're not going to be looking for that Starbuck's coffee at 3 PM. Reach for a handful of almonds or a half an apple with a dollop of peanut butter on it.

Fat will not make you fat, but carbohydrates will.

Next blog entry will be more about fats, the good, the bad, and the Truth. All fats are not created equal.

Thanks for reading!

Kath