Marking high cholesterol every day?

raypinciotti9586

Hey guys, I consider my regular diet to be pretty healthy so, in order to lose weight, I'm restricting calories by eating smaller portions, avoiding bread, and eating fruit for a snack instead of whatevers. I already lost 3 pounds and I'm pretty happy about it.

My problem is in the nutrition tab, the app constantly marks I'm way over my cholesterol. For example, yesterday it marked that for lunch I had 500+ over my cholesterol, but, quite literally, all I had for lunch were 2 boiled eggs and some fresh pico de gallo....

I need some help with this. Thanks!

sollyn23l2

The recommended maximum daily intake of cholesterol is 300. 2 eggs have 372. So, it's showing that because 2 eggs does indeed put you over the limit. If you're not concerned about limiting/lowering cholesterol, don't worry about it. But if you are, you'll want to reduce your egg intake.

sollyn23l2

Also, the nutrition information here can be quite off sometimes, since the nutrition info is user created, so random Joe from Timbuctu puts the information in as they see fit when they create the nutrition entry for a food.

neanderthin

I hear that Monster Mash toasted cereal from count chocula with monster marshmallows and artificial frute actually lowers cholesterol because it's grain, and doesn't even have cholesterol in the cereal to begin with, so it's a win win. j/k. Cheers.

sollyn23l2

neanderthin wrote: »

I hear that Monster Mash toasted cereal from count chocula with monster marshmallows and artificial frute actually lowers cholesterol because it's grain, and doesn't even have cholesterol in the cereal to begin with, so it's a win win. j/k. Cheers.

Facts. 😆

neanderthin

sollyn23l2 wrote: »

neanderthin wrote: »

I hear that Monster Mash toasted cereal from count chocula with monster marshmallows and artificial frute actually lowers cholesterol because it's grain, and doesn't even have cholesterol in the cereal to begin with, so it's a win win. j/k. Cheers.

Facts. 😆

Hey, grain is king and it has all that fortified and enriched healthy stuff too.

Corina1143

I go over on cholesterol every time I eat an egg. Never when I don't eat an egg.

cwolfman13

raypinciotti9586 wrote: »

Hey guys, I consider my regular diet to be pretty healthy so, in order to lose weight, I'm restricting calories by eating smaller portions, avoiding bread, and eating fruit for a snack instead of whatevers. I already lost 3 pounds and I'm pretty happy about it.

My problem is in the nutrition tab, the app constantly marks I'm way over my cholesterol. For example, yesterday it marked that for lunch I had 500+ over my cholesterol, but, quite literally, all I had for lunch were 2 boiled eggs and some fresh pico de gallo....

I need some help with this. Thanks!

The entries you used were bad. Also, dietary cholesterol has little to no bearing on blood serum levels. Your liver makes cholesterol and when you eat more your liver produces less...when you eat less cholesterol your liver produces more. The US is the only country that even tracks dietary cholesterol or has an RDA. Eggs are also packed with nutrients.

I've had cholesterol issues in the past and that was rectified primarily by eating a better overall diet (more whole foods, less refined sugar, healthy fats, etc), losing weight, and regular exercise. My cholesterol went down significantly all the while eating at least 2 eggs daily.

neanderthin

cwolfman13 wrote: »

raypinciotti9586 wrote: »

Hey guys, I consider my regular diet to be pretty healthy so, in order to lose weight, I'm restricting calories by eating smaller portions, avoiding bread, and eating fruit for a snack instead of whatevers. I already lost 3 pounds and I'm pretty happy about it.

My problem is in the nutrition tab, the app constantly marks I'm way over my cholesterol. For example, yesterday it marked that for lunch I had 500+ over my cholesterol, but, quite literally, all I had for lunch were 2 boiled eggs and some fresh pico de gallo....

I need some help with this. Thanks!

The entries you used were bad. Also, dietary cholesterol has little to no bearing on blood serum levels. Your liver makes cholesterol and when you eat more your liver produces less...when you eat less cholesterol your liver produces more. The US is the only country that even tracks dietary cholesterol or has an RDA. Eggs are also packed with nutrients.

I've had cholesterol issues in the past and that was rectified primarily by eating a better overall diet (more whole foods, less refined sugar, healthy fats, etc), losing weight, and regular exercise. My cholesterol went down significantly all the while eating at least 2 eggs daily.

Just to add:

The liver produces damaged LDL particles and heathy LDL, yes there is a difference, referenced in the amount of actual cholesterol per LDL particle, and this is mostly determines by a persons overall health status and not because someone eats animal products that have cholesterol and like mentioned above, it isn't a factor of our serum cholesterol levels (blood levels) for the simple fact dietary cholesterol is hydrophobic and is insoluble in water, it doesn't mix. subsequently most cholesterol is manufactured in the liver and to a much smaller degree in our digestive system.

Some LDL containers (particles) have a lot of cholesterol and others have very little, and as counter intuitive as this sounds it's the ones with the least amount of cholesterol we want to be mindful of. This effectively increases the total amount of LDL particles to deliver the same total amount of cholesterol to the body and subsequently these small dense particles that generally are less than 20nm fit nicely in our duodenum, our artery wall, the larger ones, not so much.

This whole discussion of trying to singularly reduce LDL cholesterol is a total distraction imo. If a person is of a healthy weight, eats what would be considered mostly a whole food diet, is active and gets regular exercise of some description the likely hood they're life is shortened with heart disease is not too concerning on a percentage basis, normal variances apply. But if a person is obese, has diabetes, high blood pressure, smokes and consumes what 75% of Americans eat which are ultra processed foods, which is the main contributor to those small dense LDL particles, then trying to reduce just their LDL is again a total distraction where a complete intervention would generally be where better time is spent and the incidence of heart related events will come down along with the damaged particles that I mentioned above. imo. Cheers

cwolfman13

neanderthin wrote: »

cwolfman13 wrote: »

raypinciotti9586 wrote: »

Hey guys, I consider my regular diet to be pretty healthy so, in order to lose weight, I'm restricting calories by eating smaller portions, avoiding bread, and eating fruit for a snack instead of whatevers. I already lost 3 pounds and I'm pretty happy about it.

My problem is in the nutrition tab, the app constantly marks I'm way over my cholesterol. For example, yesterday it marked that for lunch I had 500+ over my cholesterol, but, quite literally, all I had for lunch were 2 boiled eggs and some fresh pico de gallo....

I need some help with this. Thanks!

The entries you used were bad. Also, dietary cholesterol has little to no bearing on blood serum levels. Your liver makes cholesterol and when you eat more your liver produces less...when you eat less cholesterol your liver produces more. The US is the only country that even tracks dietary cholesterol or has an RDA. Eggs are also packed with nutrients.

I've had cholesterol issues in the past and that was rectified primarily by eating a better overall diet (more whole foods, less refined sugar, healthy fats, etc), losing weight, and regular exercise. My cholesterol went down significantly all the while eating at least 2 eggs daily.

Just to add:

The liver produces damaged LDL particles and heathy LDL, yes there is a difference, referenced in the amount of actual cholesterol per LDL particle, and this is mostly determines by a persons overall health status and not because someone eats animal products that have cholesterol and like mentioned above, it isn't a factor of our serum cholesterol levels (blood levels) for the simple fact dietary cholesterol is hydrophobic and is insoluble in water, it doesn't mix. subsequently most cholesterol is manufactured in the liver and to a much smaller degree in our digestive system.

Some LDL containers (particles) have a lot of cholesterol and others have very little, and as counter intuitive as this sounds it's the ones with the least amount of cholesterol we want to be mindful of. This effectively increases the total amount of LDL particles to deliver the same total amount of cholesterol to the body and subsequently these small dense particles that generally are less than 20nm fit nicely in our duodenum, our artery wall, the larger ones, not so much.

This whole discussion of trying to singularly reduce LDL cholesterol is a total distraction imo. If a person is of a healthy weight, eats what would be considered mostly a whole food diet, is active and gets regular exercise of some description the likely hood they're life is shortened with heart disease is not too concerning on a percentage basis, normal variances apply. But if a person is obese, has diabetes, high blood pressure, smokes and consumes what 75% of Americans eat which are ultra processed foods, which is the main contributor to those small dense LDL particles, then trying to reduce just their LDL is again a total distraction where a complete intervention would generally be where better time is spent and the incidence of heart related events will come down along with the damaged particles that I mentioned above. imo. Cheers

Agreed. I don't really concern myself at all with dietary cholesterol or any of that and don't necessarily actively try to control blood serum levels. Anecdotally, when I do the things that my healthy and fit friends do, everything seems to take care of itself...when I don't, I run into problems.

When I'm at a healthy weight, eating a diet consisting primarily of whole foods including plenty of animal products, vegetables, fruits, and healthy fats and moving my body everyday, all is well. My blood pressure is normal...my blood work is all normal...everything is just as it should be.

When I get lax in my diet and start eating a lot of highly processed foods, eating out a lot (especially fast food), neglecting my lean proteins, healthy fats, and veg and fruit and get lazy about moving my body everything tends to go south relatively quickly. I get fat...my blood pressure goes up...my blood work starts coming back with high (sometimes very high) triglycerides and pre-diabetic blood sugar levels.

Just do the things that healthy people do and things mostly take care of themselves IMO.