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Most people who switch to a mostly red meat diet do see a rise in blood cholesterol. I certainly did.

The real question is, does that even matter?

High cholesterol is also associated with longevity. The ratio of cholesterol is more important. The ratio of waist to shoulder width is more important.

Also your blood a1c is more important for bad outcomes than high cholesterol.


The secondary question is if the quantity of cholesterol in a food causes the body to have higher cholesterol, or if it’s more complex than that. Because yes, per gram eggs have many times more cholesterol than red meat. But what if it’s something else present in red meat that increases metabolization or production of cholesterol? We just don’t really understand the body well enough to say for sure.


the rise in blood cholesterol is probably because you're eating more saturated fat, not eating more cholesterol


There have been several studies that have shown eggs to be healthy. There are several studies that show they are unhealthy. Bias is a real problem in nutrition science.

There are zero interventional studies that show eggs to be unhealthy.

In other words no one has given eggs to one group, observed another group not eat eggs and shown that eggs CAUSE a negative health outcome.

Instead people have made statistical calculations on food questionnaires that are highly unreliable.

Also people have fed eggs to people and measured various blood levels and made a educated guess on what the long term effects could be.

If a study by Kelloggs shows eggs to be unhealthy how can it be trusted?

Likewise if members of the study are animal rights activist, vegans or some other ideology that could in one way or another effect their judgement that study shouldn't be trusted. Especially if it is not a interventional study. Of which there are none that show poor health outcomes.


> There have been several studies that have shown eggs to be healthy. There are several studies that show they are unhealthy. Bias is a real problem in nutrition science.

Mostly because "healthy" is a bit subjective.

If some study finds a correlation between egg consumption and a +1% chance of developing a rare cancer - who really cares? When you look at how rare the cancer is, when you might develop it, and the small increase in probability - you're looking at maybe a -1 day life expectancy for a life-time worth of consuming eggs.

Why is living 1 less day "unhealthy" - especially compared to all the other ways one can be "unhealthy"?


It's just such a nuanced topic people have a really hard time reasoning about it. For example, Drinking Alcohol every day clearly increases your chances of developing disease.

Drinking zero Alcohol actually decreases the likely hood of you living to a ripe old age.

Is it that Alcohol is healthy in small doses? Probably not. Perhaps people who drink a glass of wine once or twice a month have a less stressful life than someone who never drinks.

That's why nutrition studies are so hard to be done right. You have to literally watch them consume it and you need a control group and it needs to take place over years.

There are books written about Bluezones that say eating meat shortens your life yet HongKong has the both the highest life expectancy and the highest per person meat consumption in the world.

You really have to take every single claim and study with a big giant grain of salt and a whole lot of skepticism.


>Drinking zero Alcohol actually decreases the likely hood of you living to a ripe old age.

There could also be confounding factors here, which is that people who drink no alcohol may have other factors in play. i.e. There might be a health-related reason they don't drink anything.

e.g. They may be people who are alcoholics that have ceased drinking. They may have drunk heavily in the years before, but being asked "How many units of alcohol do you drink in a week" they would answer 0.

They may be on (serious) medications or have medical conditions for which they are strongly recommended to not drink.


If you're in an area which used a lot of lead paint in the past, be aware that free range chickens can move that soil lead into their eggs: https://now.tufts.edu/2019/05/29/backyard-chickens-and-risk-...

Seems this kind of invisible contextual factor could dilute studies on "health".


Fiber internet often gives you 1Gbps up.


Fiber isn’t available in 95% of the US. They give you 1Gbps up because they don’t really have saturation.


SPAs don't solve data exchange problems. Json and xml API's do.

You can have a templated html multipage site that still has a Json or xml api for other UI's that need it like android or ios. SPAs just try to morph html into some kinda more responsive dynamic app at the cost of complexity and initial load times.


Looking at how to structure a rust web development app


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