These sites mention it being good for lowering cholesterol:
https://www.uhc.com/health-and-wellness/health-topics/heart-health/lower-cholesterol
These sites mention it being high in cholesterol:
https://www.webmd.com/diet/high-cholesterol-foods
https://www.livestrong.com/article/13768086-foods-high-in-cholesterol/
Would eating sardines daily (1-2 times a day) generally lower your cholesterol or would it make it worse?
Dietary intake of cholesterol has no measurable effects on blood cholesterol. Your body makes its own cholesterol, if you eat more your body just makes less, and visa-versa.
Here is a terrific (albiet long) lecture on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuj6nxCDBZ0
Sardines are amazing though, high in creatine, omega 3’s, protien, and low in mercury. Really can’t go wrong with the lil fellas. I eat 1 can a day, every day that I eat.
David Jenkins created the concept of glycemic index we are all familiar with in 1981. Twenty years later, he looked at cholesterol and created a science based diet called the Portfolio diet to lower cholesterol.
The diet has been extensively studied https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003306201830094X?via%3Dihub and the conclusions are Current evidence demonstrates that the Portfolio dietary pattern leads to clinically meaningful improvements in LDL-C as well as other established cardiometabolic risk factors and estimated 10-year CHD risk.
So what is the Portfolio diet? Its concept is to eat a range (a portfolio) of foods known to lower cholesterol, and its core components are viscous fiber (eggplant, okra, oats…) , soy protein, plant sterols and nuts.
You can read a bit more details here https://www.heartuk.org.uk/downloads/factsheets/uclp-fact-sheet-oct2019-150dpi.pdf and the book is available on sci-hub for anyone interested.
Jenkins’ work has been dedicated to preventing and treat chronic disease, mainly diabetes, heart disease and cancer. He has published 300 publications on these topics. You can read his bio here https://nutrisci.med.utoronto.ca/faculty/david-jenkins .
No. They increase cholesterol. They contain cholesterol.
The cholesterol denialists in here saying that dietary cholesterol has no effect on blood cholesterol are citing an egg-industry funded paper; they ensured that participants were eating a baseline level of cholesterol, such that eating more wouldn’t significantly change their blood levels. There is a saturation effect, and most westerners eat above this.
If you care about lowering your blood cholesterol, then stop eating stuff that contains cholesterol. Stop eating animal products.
https://nutritionfacts.org/2016/03/22/the-effects-of-dietary-cholesterol-on-blood-cholesterol/
https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-best-food-for-high-cholesterol/