Cholesterol

MelindaMcLaren

Forgive me if I am posting in the wrong section. New poster
I need to watch my cholesterol, so I have been logging daily.
Today I looked at the cholesterol MG for my end of day and was floored!
After looking at every single thing I ate, it doesn't add up in the total macro section as it does in the individual posting of food.
Is this a concern? Am I reading it wrong?
My diary is public, if someone could look at today's post ( January 11)
Or give some advise.
TIA

MelindaMcLaren

Breakfast

Retroguy2000

It's a user supplied database. Many entries may not even have entries for cholesterol or micro-nutrients. You're lucky if the calories and main macros are accurate and up to date.

If you have incorrect entries you should be able to edit them as needed and save those as private foods or public in the database for everyone.

MelindaMcLaren

Retroguy2000 wrote: »

It's a user supplied database. Many entries may not even have entries for cholesterol or micro-nutrients. You're lucky if the calories and main macros are accurate and up to date.

If you have incorrect entries you should be able to edit them as needed and save those as private foods or public in the database for everyone.

Thanks p replying.
No, the entries, individually are correct, but the tab to view calories/macro/nutrients in the pie wheel don't add to the same.
I tried to add a screen shot, hence my breakfast comment, won't let me delete it, won't let me put a photo in
Bit individual food is correct. But in total in the macro section doesn't add up. Today I might had eaten 300mg of it. I had one whole egg today and a tsp of butter, but it logs me at 850mg!

sollyn23l2

MelindaMcLaren wrote: »

Retroguy2000 wrote: »

It's a user supplied database. Many entries may not even have entries for cholesterol or micro-nutrients. You're lucky if the calories and main macros are accurate and up to date.

If you have incorrect entries you should be able to edit them as needed and save those as private foods or public in the database for everyone.

Thanks p replying.
No, the entries, individually are correct, but the tab to view calories/macro/nutrients in the pie wheel don't add to the same.
I tried to add a screen shot, hence my breakfast comment, won't let me delete it, won't let me put a photo in
Bit individual food is correct. But in total in the macro section doesn't add up. Today I might had eaten 300mg of it. I had one whole egg today and a tsp of butter, but it logs me at 850mg!

Cholesterol isn't a macro... are you accidentally looking at fat and comparing that to your chokesterol?

lesdarts180

@MelindaMcLaren what do you mean by "I need to watch my cholesterol, so I have been logging daily."

If you are trying to change/improve your own cholesterol readings in your blood tests you need to track your fat intake. The cholesterol you take in from food is irrelevant - your body makes cholesterol.

I don't know why MFP still includes cholesterol in its nutrients listing, it is meaningless. Here in Europe it isn't included in food labels.

AnnPT77

Are you watching cholesterol because your blood cholesterol is high?

One thing I'll just throw in, even though you didn't ask, and you may already know it:

Dietary cholesterol level isn't the big determiner of blood cholesterol for most people. Some authorities estimate it accounts for 20-30%, unless you're genetically a hyper-responder.

Other aspects of diet tend to have higher impact on blood cholesterol. There's some controversy; it's complex and really about patterns rather than just one nutrient/food, but some of the higher impact things are believed to be carbohydrates, fiber, and saturated fats, as well as lifestyle factors like body weight and exercise.

I had high cholesterol, and very high triglycerides. For me, weight loss dropped both of those solidly into the normal range. I still eat the same range of foods I did when obese, just different portions/frequencies. However, as far as I know, I don't have the genetic trigger for familial hypercholesterolemia, which makes a difference.

neanderthin

Dietary cholesterol is absorbed in the intestines from enterocytes which are cells that line the intestines, then incorporated into particles (containers) called chylomicron. Chylomicrons are too big to enter the blood stream and are first transported via the lymphatic system then empty theses chylomicrons into the bloodstream through the thoracic duct, located near the neck and then these vessels (chylomicrons) travel to various tissues delivering mostly the triglyceride load and the remnants which still contain cholesterol are then transported to the liver to be processed and repurposed. This generally represents about 60 % of dietary cholesterol that we consume and the other 40% is excreted through our feces and some of the cholesterol is used to produce bile acids which helps the digestion of fats which after used for this purpose are also excreted.

Basically dietary cholesterol is hydrophobic and why this process exists. Dietary cholesterol and liver manufactured cholesterol's role in heart disease is complicated and how these lipoproteins (containers) of LDL and HDL interact with our existing and always changing metabolic health effect us and @AnnPT77 touched on that, but that is a different question altogether.