Becoming vegetarian?

[mad_scientist]

If you become a vegetarian, will your blood cholesterol levels always necessarily go down?

[Prometheus]

In general LDL ('bad' cholesterol) does lower. But there is never a guarantee that it will necessarily go down, especially if we consider a vegetarian diet isn't a homogeneous thing (you could just exclusively eat crisps for instance - vegetarian but LDL would likely go up).

[iNow]

No. It depends entirely on what your cholesterol levels, lifestyle, and diet were prior to changing your eating habits.  

The bigger question, of course, is whether or not you should choose a vegetarian spouse. 

[swansont]

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Duplicate threads merged and moved out of the Lounge

 

[Phi for All]

Blood sugar has a lot to do with whether your cells accept cholesterol from the blood or manufacture it on their own. When blood sugar is too high, cholesterol in the blood goes unused and needs to be removed by high density lipoproteins. A vegetarian would need to watch sugar intake, since it's not just meat that contributes to overall cholesterol levels.

[Itoero]

1 hour ago, Phi for All said:

Blood sugar has a lot to do with whether your cells accept cholesterol from the blood or manufacture it on their own. When blood sugar is too high, cholesterol in the blood goes unused and needs to be removed by high density lipoproteins

citation?

[Phi for All]

1 hour ago, Itoero said:

citation?

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/high-blood-cholesterol/symptoms-causes/dxc-20181874

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High blood sugar contributes to higher LDL cholesterol and lower HDL cholesterol.

http://journals.lww.com/clinicalneurophys/Abstract/publishahead/Association_of_Insulin_and_Cholesterol_Levels_With.99576.aspx

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The purpose of this prospective 3-year follow-up was to investigate the association of glucose, insulin, and cholesterol levels with peripheral nervous system function in overweight and obese subjects.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11334438/

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Leptin is produced in adipose tissue and acts in the hypothalamus to regulate food intake. However, recent evidence also indicates a potential for direct roles for leptin in peripheral tissues, including those of the immune system. In this study, we provide direct evidence that macrophages are a target tissue for leptin. We found that J774.2 macrophages express the functional long form of the leptin receptor (ObRb) and that this becomes tyrosine-phosphorylated after stimulation with low doses of leptin. Leptin also stimulates both phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI 3-kinase) activity and tyrosine phosphorylation of JAK2 and STAT3 in these cells. We investigated the effects of leptin on hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL), which acts as a neutral cholesterol esterase in macrophages and is a rate-limiting step in cholesterol ester breakdown. Leptin significantly increased HSL activity in J774.2 macrophages, and these effects were additive with the effects of cAMP and were blocked by PI 3-kinase inhibitors. Conversely, insulin inhibited HSL in macrophages, but unlike adipocytes, this effect did not require PI 3-kinase. These results indicate that leptin and insulin regulate cholesterol-ester homeostasis in macrophages and, therefore, defects in this process caused by leptin and/or insulin resistance could contribute to the increased incidence of atherosclerosis found associated with obesity and type 2 diabetes.

From what I recall reading, insulin triggered by high blood sugar signals receptors in the cells, which then produce more of their own cholesterol rather than accept it from the blood. 

[Kylo RenSkins]

On Tuesday, October 17, 2017 at 7:41 AM, iNow said:

No. It depends entirely on what your cholesterol levels, lifestyle, and diet were prior to changing your eating habits.  

The bigger question, of course, is whether or not you should choose a vegetarian spouse. 

Like everything with dating it depends on the person.  If there one of those who "choose" to become a vegetarian for moral reasons and preach to everyone else why there way is so much better than your lifestyle hails no.  

I dated a one and she was cool about it.  She became one because she just couldn't handle meat.  Just the smell of it made her feel nauseous.   Yet whenever we went out she never insisted we go to only vegetarian restaurants or tried to convert me.

 The very first time I found out about her cuisine choices, we were going to a burger place so I suggested we can go to a different place that could accommodate her and she said "don't worry about it I'll just get some chips."

[iNow]

Note, that was a jab at our OP who’s terribly preoccupied with what characteristics a potential spouse should/shouldn’t have. Seriously, he’s started like 20 distinct thread variations on this same theme.