Thanks for your thoughts. Curious about olive oil because of the work of Dr Caldwell Esselstyn, hardly call him hipster when he reversed coronary disease from many patients by removing virtually all fat, meat, dairy and oil (including olive oil) from their diets (and showed this on angiograms)
Coronary disease runs through my father's side. I don't think checking bloodwork tells you the amount of coronary disease that's building up, also a cholesterol check means little because heart disease still occurs with normal cholesterol. High HDL isn't necessarily a good thing either, and many people on strict vegan diets such as those of Esselstyn have low HDL and still show reversal of atherosclerosis. So up to a point I'm not sure about how useful blood results are?
My reasoning is that there's no way of knowing that you are doing damage / or not doing damage to your arteries with oil, even olive oil. I was just curious about the science of what Dr Sinclair was saying as that might help me understand. While Dr Esselstyn may be knowledgeable about how to reverse disease, Dr Sinclair may be knowledgeable about how to prevent it in the first place.
My reference to things growing on trees was more about how natural foods would be thought to be less likely to create inflammation as we evolved with them, but I take your point that not everything natural is best for us. Maybe olive oil does concentrate the factor that's in it that is good for us...
Edited by Rosanna, 02 February 2020 - 12:22 AM.