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> sat fat matter more to blood cholesterol than food cholesterol

Can you expand on this? I don't understand.

Eating excessive saturated fat is what your liver turns into too much "bad cholesterol" and what you need to watch if you're having cholesterol problems. Cholesterol in food doesn't usually translate to you having more cholesterol in your blood.

I would have to go dig up the source for this, but I believe that genetics play a role on how your body handles dietary cholestrol. For many it's not a problem, but for some it is.

Yeah, it's that and the relationship between dietary cholesterol and serum cholesterol isn't linear - once you're consuming a certain amount of dietary cholesterol, adding more doesn't make much difference to serum cholesterol.

So for some individuals with a super clean, low cholesterol diet, adding dietary cholesterol would significantly impact their serum cholesterol. But for many (arguably most), it won't make much of a difference, which is one of the reasons DC has moved down in importance in dietary guidelines.

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