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I have not heard of any such thing. Inuit who have never had access to unsaturated fat do not start getting heart disease until they adopt a supermarket-driven diet.

Cholesterol as a measure of health is driven to some degree by Big Pharma, who would like to have everyone taking statins for the whole rest of their lives. Certainly, dietary cholesterol is absolutely harmless, always has been.




According to an article on PubMed, that's largely a myth, based on early, faulty studies [1].

[1] "Low incidence of cardiovascular disease among the Inuit--what is the evidence?"




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