If you have been worrying about your Cholesterol, there is a good chance that you have been told by your doctor that you need to worry about it because it is high and could be life threatening. For the last 40 years, Cholesterol has been controlling the way people live and even been blamed for how some people die. Keeping your Cholesterol and maintaining a low fat diet was supposed to help you to live longer.
This week, the world of Cholesterol as most of us know it was blown into pieces as a report suggests that the government is finally admitting it was wrong about it. The promise that Cholesterol and a fatty diet was going to kill you at some point was drilled into everyone’s mind for years and now the public is supposed to unlearn that information. According to reports, experts are starting to put an end to the “low-Cholesterol, low fat diet” jingle that we have been listening to for years.
According to an independent advisory group, the Dietary Guidelines and Advisory Committee is moving away from what they used to call a heart killer. As it stands right now, a diet that is high in saturated fat will raise your blood Cholesterol levels. This is only a bad thing if those levels get so high and heart disease is noted in the patient. When a patient has high Cholesterol, that means they are taking in more than 300mg of Cholesterol each day, according to the DGAC.
To go along with that scary number, fat was supposed to be less than 30 percent of your diet and when fat and Cholesterol reached levels above that, the threat of heart disease increased. Now, the DGAC is coming forward and saying that is just a myth, in regards to high Cholesterol and fat is causing problems for your heart. There are many statements made about Cholesterol, but the most interesting being that “Cholesterol is not a nutrient of concern for over-consumption” and as far as fat goes, it is ok as long as it is the “right kind”.
It would appear that is a complete 180 in terms of how the DGAC felt years ago to what they feel today. As the public, we should understand that as the technology changes to monitor these types of things, updated information is likely to come from the studies like this one. In a new statement, the DGAC states that the “consumption of low-fat or non-fat products with high amounts of refined grains and added sugars should be discouraged.”
This might not surprise those that have been keeping an eye on the fact that these studies change the way we eat every single year. There is always something that is going to kill us one year only to be deemed OK to consume the very next year.