What Your Dr. May Not
Tell You About Cholesterol Are cholesterol numbers really meaningful, or are we being sold a bill of goods by the pharmaceutical industry?
Not exact matches
For the 5 people who
tell you not to eat eggs because they're too high in
cholesterol, you'll find 10 more who will
tell you
about the balance in nutrients, good protein and that if you eat a balanced diet,
cholesterol from eggs isn't the
cholesterol you should be concerned with.
I am now however slightly concerned
about cholesterol with a ketogenic diet, although all the literature I have read
tells me that as long as I do not have inflammation in my body and no lesions in my arteries that
cholesterol will not Lodge itself and cause plaque buildup problems.
Rather than rehash the story you can read on hundreds of other sites, I'd rather
tell you
about how to be sure red yeast rice works for you for lowering
cholesterol without any red yeast rice side effects such as muscle pain and memory loss.
Lindsey Bashore: Dr. James Bennie
tells a story
about a patient who was vegan and seemed to have an unusually high
cholesterol level.
Some plant based doctors will
tell you not to worry
about your
cholesterol levels if you are eating a whole plant food based diet as you are.
If your physician is urging you to check your total
cholesterol, then you should know that this test will
tell you virtually nothing
about your risk of heart disease, unless it is 330 or higher.
You've no doubt noticed that for
about the last 60 years, the majority of health care officials and the media have been
telling you saturated fats are bad for your health and lead to a host of negative consequences, like elevated
cholesterol, obesity, heart disease, and Alzheimer's disease.
The Dangers of Statin Drugs: What You Haven't Been
Told About Popular
Cholesterol - Lowering Medicines
She uncovers the shocking lies we've been
told about fat,
cholesterol, protein, carbs, and calories and brings us the truth
about which foods are healthy — and which foods are really harming us.
At the risk of starting a big debate
about animal fat and
cholesterol, I will go ahead and
tell you the one exception I made was to substitute bacon grease for vegetable oil in the cornbread recipe.
Cholesterol levels rise and fall under various conditions all day, so you may not have really even had the 7 point drop you were
told about.
I thought your comment
about whole milk was interesting my doctor
told me to only use low fat or 2 % said that my four year old had high
cholesterol.
Researchers even called BMI «the total
cholesterol of lipids» because, like total
cholesterol, BMI is far too vague to
tell you much
about your heart health.
This MD in Australia talks
about cholesterol and the fact that the way it is tested today is incomplete and does not
tell the whole story when you just look at A1c, LDL, HDL, and Triglycerides, this diet raises your
cholesterol but there is a small dense LDL that is not accepted by the liver for servicing but rejected and ends up in your arteries as plaque... and this is what needs to be included in a Lipid panel because this diet pre-diet shows a lipid panel that is not to bad but when you look at the SDLDL it is at 20 which is very high, and when on this diet for 6 or more weeks your lipid panel is higher but the SDLDL is 0 Zero... so your doctor flips out and yells at you but in fact you are much less prone to heart failure...
So this is the big question, then: Are so many American men so oppressed by the «horrors» of modern life — high
cholesterol, uppity wives, smartass children, cell phones, boring jobs, the general dead - eyed awfulness of suburbia — that they need a stupid movie like this one to
tell them that if they don't like their lives they should do something
about it?
Howard Weissman, AccuQuote's Medical Underwriting Expert, will
tell you more
about how you can get affordable life insurance, even if your
cholesterol is less than perfect.
If your doctor has
told you that you have high
cholesterol, it's natural to feel concerned
about how it affects your life insurance rates.