You're assuming calories matter. They don't. Once your body is using fat for fuel, vs carbs, (i.e...in ketosis) the only thing that matters is that you are eating enough fat to produce sufficient energy. Yes...the first time I heard this, I thought it was nuts as it goes against everything we'd heard for the past few decades.
There's no evidence whatsoever that our direct ancestors from the paleolithic age (same genome as ours) ate anything other than big two-handed, juicy, fatty, bloody, cholesterol-stuffed meats, and their health was as perfect as Nature can make it. Source: isotopic analysis of skeletal remains
We are talking parallel to each other at this point, which I recognize but you realize I've heard and read everything you will site on this topic. Based on your responses, you have not on the side I currently fall.
Cholesterol (demonetization and drugs) might be the biggest scam foisted on Americans. But I don't really want to derail this thread. I've said it before but I will never take statin drugs.