{"id":3059,"date":"2011-08-26T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T10:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=3059"},"modified":"2011-08-25T17:23:19","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T21:23:19","slug":"sugar-not-fat-leading-cause-of-high-cholesterol-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/08\/26\/sugar-not-fat-leading-cause-of-high-cholesterol-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Sugar, Not Fat, Leading Cause of High Cholesterol Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/08\/26\/sugar-not-fat-leading-cause-of-high-cholesterol-levels\/sugar\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3052\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Sugar-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Sugar\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3052\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Sugar-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Sugar-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>People put too much focus on fat and not enough emphasis on sugar when trying to lower high cholesterol levels, a new Tufts University research study found.<\/p>\n<p>In this study, a group of 6,000 volunteers were asked to follow one of three diets \u2013differing only in the levels of added table sugar. The lowest group consumed a paltry 3 tsp. of daily sugar while the highest sugar group downed an enormous 46 tsp. of sugar. The researchers found that levels of a certain type of blood cholesterol \u2013triglycerides\u2014shot up as sugar intake increased. Also, \u201cgood\u201d HDL cholesterol dropped in the group that ate the most sugar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/cholesterol\/\">More weird (but effective) ways to lower cholesterol&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To Your Health,<\/p>\n<p>Scott Davis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People put too much focus on fat and not enough emphasis on sugar when trying to lower high cholesterol levels, a new Tufts University research study found. In this study, a group of 6,000 volunteers were asked to follow one of three diets \u2013differing only in the levels of added table sugar. The lowest group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-cholesterol"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}