> We don't need science if we are just going to rely on easy, intuitive explanations of everything. Anybody can decide that eating fat makes you fat and fills your arteries with fat; you don't need any particular expertise for that.
Science comes in when you want to know how plaque consisting of macrophages containing fats/cholesterol on arterial walls are embedded, and how macrophage uptake of fats/cholesterol is increased/decreased. There's current work in trying to understand the role of TMAO (primarily from animal foods) in increasing macrophage uptake of fats/cholesterol:
Science comes in when you want to know how plaque consisting of macrophages containing fats/cholesterol on arterial walls are embedded, and how macrophage uptake of fats/cholesterol is increased/decreased. There's current work in trying to understand the role of TMAO (primarily from animal foods) in increasing macrophage uptake of fats/cholesterol:
http://journals.lww.com/co-lipidology/Abstract/2016/04000/Tr...
The research in this area is promising enough that insurance may derive TMAO-based measures of heart health:
https://www.thepermanentejournal.org/files/Winter2015/Artery...