ExclusiveDoes Reducing Saturated Fats Impact Hypertension, Cholesterol, and Overall Health?｜Vital Signs

High blood pressure and cholesterol are commonly seen to signal increased risk of heart disease. To lower both, eating less animal fats, like butter, lard, and tallow, is often recommended.

Many of us have the standard LDL, aka “bad” cholesterol or low density lipoproteins, level test done. However, this has shown to only be able to accurately predict heart disease risk around 40 percent of the time. So, is having a LDL cholesterol level on its own really so bad?

What kind of test can give a more accurate, say 70 percent, prediction rate for heart disease?

Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH), a diet promoted by the HHS’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, suggests eating vegetable oils over animal fats to lower LDL cholesterol level. But which type of food may be much worse for our blood cholesterol and heart health?

Join Brendon Fallon on #VitalSigns to probe a better way gauge heart-disease risk, whether the DASH diet works, and simple and effective ways to lower blood pressure.

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