lowering cholesterol...

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more houseguests, more questions

these houseguests liked the pie. don'tcha know, i make it for *everyone*

now, just to spite that first group who didn't appreciate it!

anyway. so this was a coworker and his wife, and we've been talking a lot

about nutrition. he's finally starting to consider the possibility of

changing some of his diet. he asked the following question, which gave me

some questions of my own:

" if i changed nothing else in my diet (which is SAD but on the healthier

end of SAD) but stopped drinking " bad milk " and started drinking one pint a

day of " happy milk " (raw grassfed organic), would that lower my cholesterol

(specifically, his definition was: either raise the good cholesterol and

lower the bad cholesterol, or just raise the good cholesterol and not raise

the bad cholesterol) "

i thought about that for a while, and i feel inclined to say that no matter

what, the inclusion of happy milk will help your body, but since he had a

very specific indicator he was looking for, it was hard for me to answer.

in particular, because i'm not certain about the good and bad

cholesterols...i know now that cholesterol is in fact *not* bad for us, but

what i haven't seen any talk about is whether the distinction between good

and bad cholesterol is myth. it seems to me that it's possible the bad

cholesterol is still bad, and that's made by transfats and stuff. but it

also seems possible that there is no such thing as bad cholesterol.

does anyone know what is true?

thanks,

katja