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Does Reducing Saturated Fats Impact Hypertension, Cholesterol, and Overall Health?

High blood pressure and cholesterol are commonly seen to signal increased risk of heart disease. To lower both, eating less animal fats, like butter, lard, and tallow, is often recommended.

Many of us have the standard LDL, aka “bad” cholesterol or low density lipoproteins, level test done. However, this has shown to only be able to accurately predict heart disease risk around 40 percent of the time. So, is having a LDL cholesterol level on its own really so bad?

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What kind of test can give a more accurate, say 70 percent, prediction rate for heart disease?

Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH), a diet promoted by the HHS’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, suggests eating vegetable oils over animal fats to lower LDL cholesterol level. But which type of food may be much worse for our blood cholesterol and heart health?

Join Brendon Fallon on #VitalSigns to probe a better way gauge heart-disease risk, whether the DASH diet works, and simple and effective ways to lower blood pressure.

 

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Further reading on ‘Good’ vs ‘Bad’ Cholesterol:

‘Bad’ Cholesterol May Not Be So Bad
https://cmsapi.theepochtimes.com/health/bad-cholesterol-may-not-be-so-bad-5400289

Cholesterol Particle Sizes: Why Do These Matter and How Do You Test?
https://www.healthline.com/health/cholesterol/cholesterol-particle-size-test#testing-options

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Some of the texts consulted:

The Anti-Coronary Club; Including a Discussion of the Effects of a Prudent Diet on the Serum Cholesterol Level of Middle-Aged Men
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0002916523152075?via=ihub

Dyslipidemia and the Risk of Incident Hypertension in Men
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/01.HYP.0000196306.42418.0e

Lipoprotein ratios: Physiological significance and clinical usefulness in cardiovascular prevention
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2747394/

LDL Particle Number and Risk of Future Cardiovascular Disease in the Framingham Offspring Study – Implications for LDL Management
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2720529/

Incidence of Cancer in Men on a Diet High in Polyunsaturated Fat
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673671910865

The Evidence for Saturated Fat and for Sugar Related to Coronary Heart Disease
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033062015300256

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