Reply #30: Every person has a cholesterol-limiting device inside of them [View All]

[jmowreader]

It's called an asshole. Seriously.

Your body requires a certain amount of cholesterol to function. There is cholesterol in your cell walls and in the sheaths around your nerves. It's used in the production of Vitamin D. It's used to make hormones, and it's used to generate your stomach acid.

Your body also makes a very large amount of the cholesterol you need--very little of it comes from your food. And under normal circumstances, all of the excess cholesterol you eat goes straight out your ass and right down the sewer.

I have a feeling that what really fucked up the whole process of cholesterol-shitting is the deep fat frying process. We've all got a grandfather somewhere in our family tree who started his day by eating half a slab of bacon and half a dozen eggs (except on Saturday when he had enough time to eat the whole slab) and lived to be 134. Or something like that. Anyway, Grandpa got by because there were no deep-fried foods in his diet. Today you can't get away from deep-fried foods--it's simply one of the fastest and most efficient ways for a restaurant to cook, and people like the taste of the food it creates. Remember the big thing we had on here a while back about acrylamides in starchy foods? Well, come on...there has got to be some chemical formed when lipids are heated to high temperatures that screws up the body's processing of consumed cholesterol. And it may not be something that can be reversed by not eating any more deep-fried food.