Granted, in a high insulin and blood sugar environment, more LDL would lead to more oxidized LDL, which would be bad.

However, keeping insulin and blood sugar low will eliminate that concern.

And in that environment, high LDL is protective against all cause mortality.

It certainly is a tidy theory which would explain why E3s handle saturated fats so much better than E4s. Define " better ." If LDL is protective against all-cause mortality, I would argue that higher is better. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29895699 Neither LDL-C nor TGs were associ...

Saturated fat does not cause heart disease.

https://www.nutritioncoalition.us/satur ... rt-disease

It’s the ratio of animal food versus plant food. For instance, I eat all animal-sourced food for breakfast and lunch. But, dinner will include a salad sometimes, with the rest of it being animal-based. So, I’m probably eating a 90:10 animal:plant diet. I don’t worry about calories. I don’t worry abo...

I think there are several ways to eat a healthy diet. But, it must include the elimination of carbs and seed oils. Do those two things and your health will improve dramatically whether you eat mostly meat or mostly plants. I would say, though, that it’s more of a challenge to get all the nutrients o...

I would agree that even the leanest person still has a small amount of body fat. I would think that 10% would be the lowest healthy amount. However, given the range of acceptable protein intakes, I didn't feel that the amount of fat on a lean body would throw the calculation off by any significant a...

There is a significant percentage of the population that believes as you do, myself included.

I wasn't referring to your bias ... not aware you have any.

I was referring to the Blue Zone author's bias.

Blue Zones do not eat less meat.

Once again, the data was "fudged" to agree with the author's vegetarian bias.

http://nourishingtraditions.com/true-bl ... s-okinawa/