"I am still trying to figure out on how all that fat you eat relates to your cholesterol levels."
Kind of simple. They travel together. If you're worried about cholesterol (most keto proponents are not) then you watch what foods you hang with. Eggs, chicken and beef have both high fat and high cholesterol, as opposed to vegetables.
"As far as the keto diet, it's all whole foods you eat naturally or you make, nothing processed or premade, so that is healthy."
I don't view meat as a natural food or healthy nor do medical research-scientists. That's where keto and plant-based folk part. I agree, the keto people I know are big into unprocessed food. I have baked almond flour bread and cauliflower crust pizza for staunch keto people, and they loved it. The meat and the fat are where we part ways.
This is obviously a topic that has huge debates and a lot of studies to back each side up. Just remember who funds those studies. If it's pro-fat and pro-cholesterol, it's usually the egg, chicken and beef associations. You won't find a counterpart kale, broccoli and cauliflower association funded study backing a plant-based diet.
Apart from whether or not higher elevations of cholesterol are gonna get you, the saturated fat will damage arteries. That's what I was talking about understanding the endothelial system. |
