Re: Cheese

In article <uqoHg.13446$xp2.12977@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Buddha Pest" <asd@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've been eating a daily slice of cheddar cheese lately. About 2 x 2 square
slice (inches). I figure this would get my daily allotment of dairy
products. But I am concerned about cholesterol, triglicerydes, etc.? How
does this small amount of cheese affect that? I usually eat or drink no
other dairy products whatsoever until I do the occasional pig-out of ice
cream. Thanks.

Cheese is very high in saturated fat (about 6 grams in an an oz of
cheese). A 2x2 square may be about an 1.5 oz. Saturated fat depresses
LDL receptor levels and consequently raises circulating levels of LDL.
Ice cream has even higher levels of saturated fat (in the range of 14-24
grams per serving). So both are potentially bad. Most people feel you
should keep your saturated fat intake to less than 7% of daily calorie
intake (about 14 grams total for a 2000 calorie per day diet). Eat low
fat yogurt & similar products as a much better source of dairy
(beneficial probiotics + dairy). In general for a heart friendly diet
the best thing you could do is lower your consumption of saturated and
trans fats and increase your consumption of monosaturated and add a
small amounts of omega 3 fats.

For some references on saturated fat mechanism for raising LDL see for
example

Brown and Goldstein's web site (Nobel Laureates in 1985 for discovery of
LDL receptor.

http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/utsw/cda/dept14857/files/114532.html

or this paper

http://www.jlr.org/cgi/content/abstract/38/3/459

Or read pages 481 to 485 and 798 at this link which is a book put out by
the National Academy of Science on Dietary Reference intakes and
summarizes a great deal of data

http://darwin.nap.edu/books/0309085373/html/481.html


This site has some good general info on atherosclerosis:

http://www.baylorhealth.edu/proceedings/13_2/13_2_questions.html

If you are highly motivated you could read Brown and Goldstein's Lecture
on the the LDL receptor that they delivered when they got the Nobel
Prize:

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1985/brown-goldstei
n-lecture.pdf#search=%22brown%20goldstein%20ldl%22

Roland


Roland
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