Health Organizations Leading People To Death By Recommending Cholesterol Levels That Are Too High
U.S. health organizations will recommend cholesterol levels be below 200 mg/dL and fat consumption be less than 30% of the diet. They set the upper recommendations here because they feel setting the upper recommendations any lower is unattainable for too many people.
Recommending cholesterol levels below 200 mg/dL encourages many people to keep their cholesterol right below 200 mg/dL when they should be aiming for a much lower level.
Reality is the body makes all the cholesterol it needs from fat we consume and adding cholesterol to our diets leads people to have cholesterol levels that are detrimental to health.
There is strong evidence to support keeping total cholesterol below 150 mg/dL to slow the rate of coronary heart and even that might be too high.
Evidence shows that in cultures where coronary heart disease rarely exists the total cholesterol level is from the low range of 90 to the high range of 150 mg/dL, with the high range being supportive of the onset of the disease.
A whole food plant-based diet does not contain cholesterol and on average 10% of its total calories come from fat. The development of heart disease is rare in people of cultures consuming this diet.
