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It would seem so:

http://eatingacademy.com/cholesterol-2/random-finding-plus-p...

I think that's essentially what a diagnosis of familial hypercholesterolemia means.

Likewise people seem to vary widely in their ability to handle high carb diets. I guess a cookie cutter approach doesn't really work across the board.

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Cholesterol worries or issues in a lab panel may be troublesome, but the actual-process of fat metabolization (or any of the stages digestion, absorption, circulation, utilization, storage, burning, recycling) being "bad" compared to others/most I still haven't specifically seen mentioned including in the above.

High carb diets of course that's common. But saturated fat, you know, it's simply what fueled the ice ages!

It's curious you don't find this author biased.

I don't find him biased because he's balanced, when he doesn't know he says so and he backs up everything he says with rigorous literature. Peter is also the president of NUSI (http://nusi.org/solving-the-problem/), and as such dedicated to objective dietary science. In addition he's well respected by others whose work I also admire.

That's an interesting statement considering you like to use links from nutritionfacts.org, written and run by a questionable [1][2] indivdual, Michael Gregor with an obvious bias towards vegetarian/vegan diets.

[1]https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/death-as-a-foodborne-il...

[2] http://www.humanewatch.org/hsus_doc_exposed_as_schlock/

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