Should you put away your French press coffee maker?

Our uncured meats better than traditionally cured products?

Is sauteing just as bad as deep frying?

And hey, what is the deal with these ketone drinks that promise all day energy?

In this special mailbag edition of the Nutrition Diva podcast,

I'm answering your questions on a whole

variety of nutrition topics.

Hello, I'm Monica Reinagle, and you're listening to The Nutrition Diva podcast. In addition to

covering the latest nutrition news and research, I also love answering your

questions about food and nutrition.

And today, I have a bit of a grab bag of questions that have been sent in by listeners

over the past few weeks, touching on everything from coffee to beef jerky to stir fries.

So let's start our show The Way I Start Every Day,

and that is with a nice cup of coffee. Michelle wrote in after reading an article that warned

about a potential link between French Press coffee and elevated cholesterol levels. She and her husband have been using a French press to make

their coffee every day for the last eight years or so, and she says their cholesterol levels are

currently fine, but understandably, the article made her a bit nervous, so she wanted to know if

they should consider switching to a different brewing method.

Unfiltered coffee, such as that made in a French press, or a Turkish coffee, which is boiled.

These contain compounds called diterpenes, and there are two specific dietropines,

kaffistol and kawaiol, which have been found in clinical studies to

raise LDL cholesterol levels. LDL is what we sometimes call the bad cholesterol. Now, these

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