Healthy Eating Myths Destroyed

Written by Dr. Jamie Fettig


Some ofrepparttar things you think you know that just ain’t so (these myths are not true): Eating Cholesterol does not increase your cholesterol levels Salt does NOT cause High Blood Pressure Eating Fat does NOT make you fat All refined carbohydrates are hazardous to you Artificial sweeteners of all kinds are not good for you All vitamins and supplements are NOT created equal

Eating Cholesterol does not increase your cholesterol levels

The Medical professions current way of thinking about cholesterol. They look and see lots of cholesterol inrepparttar 105459 blood. So they scratch their head and say, well, don’t eat so much cholesterol then. If you eat less cholesterol, you will not have as much in your blood. Now, onrepparttar 105460 surface, it sounds good. But there are two major flaws with their theory. The first one. It doesn’t work. I dare you to try and find someone whose cholesterol significantly went down by eating less cholesterol. You will be hard pressed to find someone. Even with medication.

That brings in my favorite definition of insanity. Doingrepparttar 105461 same thing over and over, and expecting a different result. This is whatrepparttar 105462 medical profession has been doing for Years. Telling people to dorepparttar 105463 same thing, with out really getting results, expecting to get different results. It just doesn’t work that way.

The Second flaw in their theory is this. The cholesterol in your blood is notrepparttar 105464 same cholesterol inrepparttar 105465 food you eat. Your body actually has to break downrepparttar 105466 cholesterol inrepparttar 105467 food you eat, and then absorbrepparttar 105468 pieces ofrepparttar 105469 cholesterol. Then your body, if it wants to, has to reassemblerepparttar 105470 pieces back intorepparttar 105471 cholesterol you find in your blood. And your body does not make cholesterol, unless you need it.

The question is then why would you need cholesterol in your blood?

Cholesterol’s primary job is to carry glucose (sugar) aroundrepparttar 105472 blood stream. You need an equal number of cholesterol units as you have sugar molecules in your blood. So if you have 3000 sugar molecules in your blood, you need 3,000 cholesterol molecules to carry them. The actual numbers are much, much higher than this, but you getrepparttar 105473 point.

The more glucose or sugar molecules you have in your blood,repparttar 105474 more cholesterol you need to carry them.

So what affects your blood sugar levels? Mostly what you eat. Refined Carbohydrates. When you eat refined carbohydrates,repparttar 105475 get digested and absorbed intorepparttar 105476 blood stream very quickly. Your body then very quickly convertsrepparttar 105477 refined carbohydrates into glucose. This causes a spike in your blood glucose levels. And if you have a high amount of glucose inrepparttar 105478 blood, what do you need again? That is right; you need lots of cholesterol to carry those glucose guys around.


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