Cholesterol

“ I urge all Americans to become familiar with the dangers of high blood cholesterol and to take steps to determine their cholesterol levels and discuss the implications of their cholesterol measurement at their next visit to their doctor. ”

“ Cholesterol is frequently found in animal fats, and phytosterol is a very similar substance present in vegetable fats. Solid alcohols occur naturally in sperm oil, but hydrocarbons, which may be generally recognised by the fluorescence or bloom they give to the oil, are not natural constituents of animal or vegetable oils and fats.
The presence of cholesterol and phytosterol may be detected by dissolving a small portion of the unsaponifiable matter in acetic anhydride, and adding a drop of the solution to one drop of 50 per cent. ”

“ The National Cholesterol Education Program, a joint program by the Federal government, medical groups, voluntary health organizations, industry, and State and local health agencies, has undertaken a campaign to educate professional, patient, and public audiences about the importance of lowering a high blood cholesterol level. The program urges all Americans to learn about the relationship among blood cholesterol, diet, and heart disease ”

“ We still go with the American Heart Association type diet and go with the low cholesterol, low fat diet. The President's chefs and the entire medical team has made sure that when possible, he gets a low-cholesterol, low-fat diet. ”

“ We do recommend, as we said, good diet and exercise, but we're also going to go after the LDL, the LDL being the poor cholesterol, and we're going to drive that down with diet, exercise and the medication. ”

“ Research projects, such as the Coronary Primary Prevention Trials concluded in 1984, have given new impetus to the American Heart Association's longstanding finding that control of blood cholesterol decreases risk for heart attacks and strokes. The American Heart Association has taken major steps to inform the public about the significance of those test results, to influence Americans to adopt a prudent diet, and to encourage the efforts of scientists who are unlocking the mysteries of heart and blood vessel diseases. ”

“ Lecithin, and possibly other fatty compounds, are known108 to be important auxiliaries in the ferment-like actions produced by toxins; cholesterol has a similar effect, and as this body is a constituent of dung, it may play some part in puering. Here, again, is a further problem awaiting investigation.
Loevenhart has shown that the bile salts, sodium cholate, and sodium glycocholate, greatly increase the activity of lipase, and Magnus found that synthetic bile salts have the same effect; such bodies are known as co-enzymes. ”

“ These components are crystalline and when separated in the pure state have definite melting points, although some exhibit the phenomenon of double melting point. For the most part the naturally occurring glycerides are mixed glycerides. In the natural fats and oils there are present also certain higher alcohols, of which cholesterol is characteristic of the animal fats and oils and phytosterol of many of the vegetable fats and oils. ”

“ And the Organic certification bureaucrats aren't all that different than the rabbis who certify food as being kosher, either.
There are now millions of frightened Americans who, following the advice of mainstream Authority, have eliminated red meat from their diets and greatly reduced what they (mistakenly) understand as high-cholesterol foods.
All these diets work too--or some--and all demonstrate some of the truth.
The only area concerning health that contains more confusion and contradictory data than diet is vitamins. What a rats nest that is! ”

“ He has certainly expressed a strong interest to getting back out on the road and resuming his jogging plans. And there are really no limitations that he faces. He's been very active, working out regularly in the White House gym, but around the demands of his road schedule and that sort of thing. Q I want to ask a question about the cholesterol because the ratio of 5.1, what is exactly -- what does that mean? And the other item, you said that LDL is elevated from 134 to 177. I understand that, because that's the dangerous cholesterol. ”

“ The cholesterol and LDL values, again, we noted are elevated over last year's results and we recommended in addition to diet and exercise, we have started the President on medications to lower his cholesterol.
The President's chronic allergies were also evaluated today and, as you know, he has been receiving allergy shots every seven to 10 days since he's been coming to the White House. His allergist has recommended obtaining repeat skin testing in the future if he should discontinue those allergy shots. ”

“ Other constituents are cholesterol (0.46-1.32%) , traces of calcium, magnesium, sodium, chlorine and bromine, and various aliphatic amines which are really secondary products, being formed by the decomposition of the cellular tissue. ”

“ In the liver of rats administered with Roundup, a trend in the accumulation of most fatty acids, in particular acylcarnitines, as well as a statistically significant elevation of cholesterol levels was observed (Table 3) . Proteome profiles further confirmed a marked change in lipid detoxifying metabolic processes (Table 1, Fig. 5) . In the pathology of NASH, oxidative stress acts as a second hit [31] , leading to lipid peroxidation, mitochondrial damage, hepatocellular injury, and finally chronic inflammation and fibrosis. ”

“ These new guidelines strengthen the message that doctors and scientists have been telling us for some time now: We should choose more whole-grain foods and a variety of fruits and vegetables every day, and we should moderate the saturated fat, cholesterol, sugar, salt, and alcohol in our diets. ”

“ But in the studying of his LDL, which was 134 on our last evaluation, today it was 177. As Dr. Mariano mentioned, that's the unhealthy cholesterol occurring on a patient that's very active and following a diet. It was time to initiate drug therapy. So we'll have him on one of the HMG -- inhibitors. We'll start a normal dose regiment, and we will do follow-up laboratory tests on him in approximately one month. Q (Inaudible.) DR. MARIANO: September 25, 1999. This is the 2000 exam and the departure exam. ”

“ First of all, margarine is almost indigestible, chemically very much like shortening--an artificially saturated or hydrogenated vegetable fat. Hydrogenated fats can't be properly broken down by the body's digestive enzymes, adding to the body's toxic load. Margarine, being a chemically-treated vegetable oil with artificial yellow color and artificial flavorings to make it seem like butter, also releases free radicals in the body that accelerate aging. So, to avoid the dangers of eating cholesterol-containing butter, people eat something far worse for them! ”

“ E78.0 Pure hypercholesterolemia Familial hypercholesterolemia Fredrickson's hyperlipoproteinemia, type IIa Hyperbetalipoproteinemia Hyperlipidemia, Group A Low-density-lipoprotein-type [LDL] hyperlipoproteinemia E78.1 Pure hyperglyceridemia Elevated fasting triglycerides Endogenous hyperglyceridemia Fredrickson's hyperlipoproteinemia, type IV Hyperlipidemia, group B Hyperprebetalipoproteinemia Very-low-density-lipoprotein-type [VLDL] hyperlipoproteinemia E78. ”

“ What happens is that all the digestion products, except the fats, pass through the capillaries of the liver, but the fat gets into the blood stream by another way and does not go through the liver en route; for some reason or other it seems to be to the advantage of the body that the fat should not be allowed to circulate through the liver capillaries. It is, as we shall see in a later chapter, a distinct advantage to have the glucose pass through the liver, and there is probably also a good reason for having the digestion products of protein take that course. ”

“ Use only a few foods at a meal; use only one hearty, concentrated food in a meal, as a rule, with the exception that various fats and oils in moderation are allowable as dressings for fruits, vegetables and starches; that much fat or oil retards the digestion of the rest of the food; that the habitual combining of acid food with foods heavy in starch is a trouble-maker; that concentrated starchy foods should be taken not to exceed twice a day; that the heating, stimulating foods rich in protein, which include nearly all meats, should be taken only once a day in winter, and less in summer ”

“ Fatty foods undergo little or no chemical alteration until they reach the small intestine. During their stay in the stomach they naturally become liquid from the heat of the body, and there is more or less liberation of fat from the digestive action of gastric juice on cell walls, connective tissues, etc. Most food fat is in the form of so-called neutral fat, which must undergo hydrolysis or saponification before it can be absorbed and thus made available for the body. This is accomplished by the enzyme lipase, or steapsin, of the pancreatic juice, aided indirectly by the presence of bile. ”

“ If sugar appears in the urine during the process of raising the diet, we drop back to a lower diet, and if this is unavailing, start another starvation day, and raise the diet more slowly. But it will be found, if the diet is raised very slowly, sugar will not appear. It is not well to push the average case; if the patient is taking a fair diet, say protein 50, carbohydrate 50 and fat 150, and is doing well, without any glycosuria, it is not desirable to raise the diet any further. ”

“ Thus, in phthisis and in the various forms of metallic and phosphorus-poisoning the condition of the liver is quite secondary. There are cases of obesity, however, in which the fatty change in the liver is a part of the general morbid process, and must be treated accordingly. There are still other cases in which, without a decided tendency to obesity, the food habitually consumed is of a fatty or fat-forming nature. The first requisite in the treatment of fatty liver is to amend the diet. ”

“ The carbohydrates include sugars, starches, cellulose, and the fibers of plants. Potatoes, sago, farina, and arrowroot are rich in them. Fats should be used with caution in disease, because they retard the formation of hydrochloric acid, which excites the pancreatic secretion, an important factor in digestion. Man can live better without a stomach than without a pancreas. Physicians realize that they must rely on diet rather than drugs to cure indigestion, as the food varies in its proportion of fat, protein, and carbohydrates ”

“ Too rich food would induce not only diseases of the digestive organs, but also disorders of metabolism, like obesity, gout, or diabetes, and thus shorten life. Arteriosclerosis is also promoted by such a diet.
The more food also the more exercise should be taken, and the more we work the more food should we take.
Aged persons should take less proteid food and more carbohydrates. Proteid food is better suited to young persons who are growing. Besides carbohydrates, milk is also especially indicated for old persons, as are also certain amounts of fat, butter, etc. ”

“ It follows, therefore, that, unless one is a thorough student of dietetics, the mixed diet is by far the safest to follow. One can better run short of starch or fat in one day’s rations than to be short of protein, because if the two to four ounces daily requirement is not provided the tissues are consumed and the blood is impoverished. It is a rare condition in which a reserve of glycogen and fat is not stored in the system. On the other hand an excess of nitrogenous foods calls for a very active circulation and plenty of oxygen in the system. ”

“ In the stomach there are no enzymes acting on carbohydrates, but the digestion may continue under the influence of swallowed saliva for a time. In the pancreatic juice there is another amylase, which completes the splitting of starch to maltose, and then the intestinal maltase can reduce this to glucose, which will be absorbed. Cellulose cannot be digested and simply serves to add bulk to the diet.
Digestion of fat.—A fat is made up of two parts, one a fatty acid, the other glycerol. Fat cannot be absorbed by the body until it is split into these two parts. ”

“ Fats are absorbed practically entirely by the lacteals. They enter the cells covering the villi, travel thence to the lymph spaces, and so into the lacteal or main lymph channel, whence they are carried to the thoracic duct and the general circulation. From the blood they are absorbed as fat and stored up as adipose or fatty tissue, which is found throughout the body in connective tissue about the organs. Organic salts and water are for the most part absorbed by the portal system, which they reach through the capillaries of the villi and through which they go to the liver. ”

“ On the other hand, fatty food eaten with the meals prolongs the stay of food in the stomach and causes an increase in the secretion of hydrochloric acid. An excess of the acid, as we have just learned, is favorable to the development of heartburn. Therefore, as a further precaution against this source of discomfort, it is advisable not to use a large amount of butter or of salad oil, and to refrain from fried food, rich desserts, or any other article of diet known to contain a relatively large amount of fat. ”