by Liz Pavek

Actually, this is relatively old news, and the thing that irks me the most is the fact that medical research has known about this for years, and yet, they still insist that cholesterol is bad for humans. Here are some KNOWN AND PROVEN facts about cholesterol in the diet:

1. Cholesterol is not a fat. It is a sterol, more like wax.

2. Cholesterol is an essential nutrient. So essential, in fact, that if you don't get enough of it in your diet, your body will manufacture it out of sugar.

3. That's right: sugar. Sucrose.  Dextrose.  Maltose.  White Death.  Cholesterol is made from carbohydrates by the body. Insulin is the hormone that triggers this behavior in the absence of sufficient dietary cholesterol. "...paradoxically, when the body is deprived of cholesterol from food, the cholesterol produced in the liver’s chemical laboratory is largely the type of cholesterol that is found in atheromatous deposits that clog small coronary arteries—the very condition that today’s medical advisors fervently seek to avoid."  -- Melvin Anchell, M.D.   (In other words, if you don't want plaques in your arteries, start eating foods with plenty of cholesterol in them.)

4. Cholesterol is also an essential building block of cells, comprising about 50% of their material. If you removed all the cholesterol from your body, you'd be a puddle of goo.

5. Cholesterol is also essential in the formation of hormones and for the health of glands.

6. It is the main component of brain tissue.

7. It is essential for the formation of neurotransmitters, such as serotonin, which is sort of like a "master" neurotransmitter. Many others are only made after serotonin is formed. (Serotonin prevents depression and aggressive behavior.)

8. A diet rich in natural cholesterols will bring down your blood cholesterol readings to normal levels in less than ninety days.

9. There is little or no relationship between dietary fat and stored body fats or cholesterol accumulations in the arteries.  Insulin must be stimulated in order for the storage of fat in the fat cells (the only cells that can receive fats) to take place; and the only nutrients that can stimulate the release of insulin are carbohydrates. Fats do not stimulate insulin.  Fat is metabolically "neutral" or “inert” when it comes to fat storage.  Those triglycerides swimming around in your blood? They are made from that one-pound cinnamon roll (without butter, of course), orange juice, and sugared coffee you had for breakfast, and they are on their way to your fat cells and arteries.

 Insulin is also responsible for the formation of plaques in the arteries, not fats, and especially not natural fats like butter, lard, and meat fats, which are all saturated, and are in a liquid state at body temperature. (The plaques in arteries consist mostly of unsaturated fats, about half of which are polyunsaturated.)

10.  Think of an egg.  Pure cholesterol and protein.  If an egg is the perfect food for developing life of unborn humans and animals, at what point does it suddenly become toxic for born creatures like adult humans??  

Insulin is responsible for high blood pressure and coronary heart disease.  Check this out: 

“…Recently we've learned that hyperinsulinism may also be a culprit in coronary heart disease.  Insulin stimulates the body's production of an enzyme that causes the liver to produce cholesterol.  Oversupply of insulin in the blood may also stimulate changes in the arterial walls that promote formation of fatty plaques, which are involved in coronary heart disease.  Insulin resistance may also explain why type II diabetics are two to four times as likely as non-diabetics to develop heart disease." 

                       --By Calvin Ezrin, MD, in The Metabolic Trap

  11.  Cholesterol is the body's first-aid kit.  It repairs and protects the insides of the blood vessels that have been damaged by the enzymes released by increased insulin, the consequence of a high-carbohydrate diet.

Cholesterol Press Release  Uffe Ravnskov and others poke more holes in the lipid-theory balloon   

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