Is This the End of the Cholesterol Controversy?

And what raises LDL cholesterol? Saturated fat. And where is cholesterol-raising saturated fat found? The number one source is dairy; number two source is chicken; then pastries, pork, and burgers.

Even just a single egg a day can increase people's LDL cholesterol 12%.

Ideally, we want to get our total cholesterol well under 150 since having high cholesterol levels in your blood is thought of as the only direct atherosclerosis risk factor. All the other things—smoking, high blood pressure, diabetes, inactivity, obesity—just exacerbate the damage caused by the high cholesterol.

Scientific consensus panels going back decades established beyond a reasonable doubt that lowering LDL cholesterol reduces the risk of heart attacks. Consistent evidence unequivocally establishes that LDL causes our number one killer: atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

Give someone half a cup of eggs a day, and within two, three, four weeks their cholesterol keeps going up; and then stop the eggs by switching to an egg substitute, and the cholesterol comes down.

Where is dietary cholesterol coming from now? Overwhelmingly eggs with the number two source chicken, then beef, dairy, and pork.