Re: cholesterol question

OP by itself probably wouldn't affect your cholesterol a whole lot. Cholesterol is an animal product, only found in animal bodies. If you want to lower it, eat fewer or no animals. When I ate vegetarian, my cholesterol just fell off the charts.

There was a recent independent, academically-funded, long term, large survey study on the eating habits of female nurses that found that refined sugar/carbohydrates increased weight and heart disease risk, more vegetarian diets lowered it, and THE AMOUNT OF FAT IN THE DIET HAD NO EFFECT AT ALL. This was a really radical finding, since it completely contradicts what the American Heart Association has been touting for "forever," and supports what those "quack" low-carb advocates have been saying for a long time. ;) Sorry I didn't keep the link! But it's relatively new "news" and someone better at internet searching than me could probably find it.

So if you are replacing animal fats with vegetable fats, you are doing good by your body. If you're replacing refined carbohydrate calories with vegetable fat calories, you're also doing good by your body. About the only way you could go wrong would be to add so much oil to your diet that you pack on the pounds, but apparantly (see "The Shangri-La Diet" book) more oil taken wisely can be a weight LOSS technique.

Well, I'm going to go OP myself, then follow it up with a tablespoon of VCO.
Take care!








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