Protein and Cholesterol

avoid trans fats and HFS food for the most part

Cholesterol is necessary as part of a good diet, just don't go on a bacon only diet. Keep protein high (30-50% of your calories) and everything else should fall into place.

I think Mark Sisson explains cholesterol pretty well. He's a paleo, low carb type of guy, in a nutshell.

Some people don't like the idea of paleo and/or low carb high fat diets, but Mark has pretty solid reasoning and citations for any claim he makes(and BTW I don't agree with everything Mark says/believes).

I think diet makes a lot of sense from an evolutionary standpoint. For 2 millions years we survived off eating only animals and plants. Yes, we had a high mortality rate at that time, but that's due to illness and not having medicine/vaccine, wars/battles, high infant mortality, nutritional deficiencies, lack of water, etc.. Only recently has our diet radically changed to include mass amounts of simple sugars and highly processed foods.

This long winded post is me saying dietary cholesterol is harmless.

I don't see many citations and hate the way its written. Fwiw I also follow low carb guidelines but don't like calling it paleo.

I did learn however that sugars cause ldl so that's a nice pickup