PCOS Messages for June, 2000: Re: About low carb... cholesterol -- why it goes down

Re: About low carb... cholesterol -- why it goes down

From: Mary (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 10 Jun 2000 00:40:35 -0500 (CDT)

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No no, its not like that at all. Of the total cholesterol in your body, only about 20% comes from what you eat. The rest your body MAKES! And the amount it makes varies. Basically, the reason it will make more is b/c, if you eat a whole bunch of crap--that your body immed. wants to store--you will have to either make more fat cells or grow the ones you have so there's some place to put the new fat.

And guess what your body makes these cell walls out of? Cholesterol. (I just read all ab out this in Protien Power (by Eades). I never knew this before. BUt it makes a lot of sense that when you stop either eating a lot of extra garbage/sugar that your body loves to store, and you stop jumping your insulin around with mega-carbs (insulin is the fat storing hormone), you chill out the whole fat storage onslaught. SO as a result, your liver can calm down on the cholesterol production. That's why pple on low carb diets are generally known to have lowered cholesterol even tho they eat so much meat, eggs etc.

At Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Janice wrote: >
>I have to add my two cents' worth...I agree with Kristina. Since I have
>been eating fewer carbs, my cholesterol has gone down (and it was okay
>to begin with) even though I have been eating some high cholesterol
>foods. My dad's cholesterol level would make anyone sick...this
>77-year-old man has eaten two eggs and two slices of fatback every
>morning at breakfast for most of his life. His cholesterol level was
>checked back in March -- and it was 120!!
>
>I've read that if a person eats too few calories, the body goes into
>"starvation mode". I wonder if it does the same thing with cholesterol?
>Just a thought...

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