Yeah in a large subset of the population (I think between 50-60% if i'm not mistaken), but then what about the other 40% ? That's the thing with health nutrition, you can't really generalize very well.
Your "other take" is about dietary saturated fat and this article is talking about dietary cholesterol.
My take is that dietary cholesterol has little to no effect on blood cholesterol, however dietary saturated fat has a strong effect on blood cholesterol levels and health outcomes. Note that this take is consistent with the current article and the one you linked to.
Besides eggs which seem to have a positive effect, what else is good and what is bad for controlling blood cholesterol? I couldn’t work it out from the articles.
I discovered that I had high cholesterol about 9 months ago. My LDL was 191, when it should be 100 (or lower).
I met with a nutritionist at UCSF who boiled it down to a simple (although not necessarily easy) dietary rule, which is that I could only eat 8 or fewer grams of saturated fat per day. That's the only metric that I've been monitoring, and I've brought my LDL number down to 120 as of my most recent test.
This is all without medication. I will also note that I have been exercising more and lost 30 pounds.
p.s. An egg has ~1.5g saturated fat. So, in my case, I usually eat just egg whites because eating 2 whole eggs for breakfast would put me above the rough estimate of 2.7g per meal (3 meals per day).
Are you me? I recently had 194 LDL-C. I panicked and switched to a plant based diet. About 10 days in I paid for another lab test -- my LDL-C dropped 60 points in 10 days. I've returned to eating some lean meat, but I've learned my lesson about saturated fat.
8 grams is very low. Do you count everything? Do you count nuts? Do you count oatmeal? Do you count potatoes? I was aiming for 5g of saturated fat while only tracking high fat items, but once I logged everything using a diet app I found I got a lot of saturated fat from things like oatmeal. When I really track everything 13g is my current limit, and it's much more reasonable and matches the ADA recommendations.
For the first month, I religiously counted/tracked everything and was regularly below that 8g target.
While I no longer methodically track the data, I remain fastidious with what I eat. For example, "Mush" brand oatmeal is very tasty imo, and it only contains 0.5-1.0g for the flavors that I eat. Like you, I've also added more plant-based foods to my diet. I'm a big fan of "Credo" brand queso, which has 0g due to using cashews as the dairy-substitute.
Statins, fish oil, psyllium husk, and aerobic exercise are good for lowering blood serum cholesterol. An easy dietary change is eating more beans and oatmeal. Avoid foods high in saturated fats, which is generally meats and dairy.
People on the ketogenic diet have stable blood sugar levels due to glucogenesis and it's those who eat a lot of carbohydrates that experience fluctuations. High sugar levels can cause it to stick to artery walls like little daggers, and cholesterol then gets stuck there as well on those. The original comment was short and didn't include these details.
I've had that happen at my work, but afaik it was just so that the location could be added to google maps. Someone who just wanted your business to be on google maps for some reason?
Google has a pretty streamlined process to take back control of these too so maybe its pretty commonplace.
We already had it listed, and he abused the recovery process (no idea how!) to get control over it. We managed to appeal to get it back. Nothing really happened other than that.
If the president is at Level 7 then it is an utter failure of their administration. Whatever the president's busy level is, it needs to be something that can be kept up with for years at a time without breaking down. They've got whole branches of government at their disposal to delegate tasks. I'd imagine the president's staffers try and keep it at or below a 4 90% of the time.
Maybe on higher end or newer vehicles sure, but for your standard economy vehicle made in the last 2 decades its commonly just visually reading (as in a human just looking with their eyeballs) the fluid level on the reservoir. No sensors or switches involved.
That hasn’t been true in the U. S. for a good 50 years. Cars going back to the 60s had a small float switch that flipped a dashboard light if the fluid got low. As one who used to work on cars as a profession, I don’t recall that I’ve ever seen a car without this simple warning device.
The reason parent commenter doesn’t know this is because hydraulic leaks on auto brake systems are relatively rare as long as the vehicle darkens the door of a shop occasionally, even if rarely. Ergo, one might not even know there is a dash light.
Tell me with a straight face that you know more than one person beside yourself that actually looks at those lights at startup and checks that they are working. :-) I mean, you're right, but I'd venture to guess that for a lot of people the "lamp test" doesn't mean anything to them.
I tend to think that this is one of those things that amateurs would only notice at first as, "I think that one of those red lights is not turning on at ignition." Not specifically the brake fluid level.
Grew up driving pre-1980's cars and didn't know about this until this year. The light on the dash that lit up was the same indicator as the light that comes on when the hand-brake is engaged. When the light would not go off when the hand-brake was disengaged and I thought the brake needed adjustment. Nope, fluid just low.
>but also I gotta have my "expert on topic talks to me about interesting thing" content.
You should absolutely be listening to podcasts. This is literally the main strength of the format. What do you mean you "never know how to play them" ?
Whichever phone you have there will be abundant free podcast players in the app store, you can look up and subscribe to their feeds and listen through that. Longform interviews or conversations on every topic imaginable.
Since each podcast independently chooses where/who their files are hosted on/with, no not really. AFAIK podcast apps are just a directory of RSS feeds, so you could in theory subscribe to one of those feeds directly but I have no idea for sure.
If the goal is to listen on your computer instead of your phone you could probably use spotify or apple podcasts or whatever.
Personally one of the strengths of podcasts is that its audio-only, so I can listen while on the go/doing non-cognitive work. Perfect use-case for a phone, but to each their own.
I disagree. Youtube easily has the best recommendations out of all of the big social media/content sites.
Its entirely based in what you are watching. If you watch very little on the site then yes, obviously they will just throw random stuff at you that is popular. The recommendation algorithm has nothing to go on.
["Popular" in this case usually means trash since the videos that get the biggest on the platform ARE clickbait shallow garbage because the vast majority of watch time is from kids and teens.]
If you seek out creators and channels that you enjoy/find useful, actually engage with the algorithm by subscribing to quality channels, hitting "not interested" when the recommendations miss, suddenly you'll get better results.
One very recent (1 month maybe?) change that ive noticed is that Youtube tosses in WAY more tiny channels into the recommendations. I get recommended videos with ~1k or less views all the time. I've found some awesome stuff through that.
Caffeine and nicotine are not that dissimilar. Both are physically and psychologically addictive. It's just nicotine happens to come in a much nastier package healthwise.
I work at a 10'000+ acre private nature reserve. I maintain and upgrade our hiking and ski trail network, all of our equipment, vehicles, a dozen rental cottages and a whole bunch of campsites.
Debating between going back to my bio school background via probably bioinformatics but for now really like working outside with my hands. Starting to build custom furniture and repair equipment on the side.
Cant imagine doing one type of job for more than handful of years, at least for now.
My background is in ecology & evolutionary biology, and I think your job is wild. ;) Many of my (ex-)colleagues spend a lot of time camping in various places doing fieldwork. Do you spend a lot of time with cool animals/plants at the reserve?
If you search "NOVA food classification system" there is a PDF guide as the first link.