How to improve HDL the good cholesterol
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Comments (19)I understand what you are saying sunnibel but the point was never "good enough". It was relevance to this forum. And any member is free to express comments on inappropriate use of the forums at any time. The forum focus is well defined: This forum is for the discussion of issues involved in the growing of vegetables--choosing varieties, methods of planting, maintaining plants, etc. The focus here is growing vegetables, vegetable gardening. It isn't a health forum, it isn't a healthy eating forum, it isn't a natural health food website or a medical forum. Those exist in great numbers but this isn't one of them. So since you clearly share this individuals interest in these topics, why not go discuss those issues on those forums where it is appropriate rather than here? Not only do relevant topic discussions get bumped off the forum with each of these posts but someone new to the forum looks at the front page and sees all these posts on controlling your cholesterol, diabetes, and lowering your blood pressure, etc. rather than posts about vegetable gardening. And if quality and accuracy of of the linked websites posted, as Flora mentioned, isn't relevant, then what is? Dave...See MoreWhat to cut....cholesterol issues
Comments (38)There is some great info in this thread! Copying and pasting. My cholesterol has been stellar, but DH has a familial issue. He's been on Lipitor for years, now just switched to Vytorin. We'll see with the next blood test if it had any results. I'm another one who cooks only with EVOO or a bit of canola or grapeseed when absolutely necessary. You know that I don't add butter to any recipe that I'll be eating, nor do we use much butter or margarine here. DH give up eating cheese, but he prefers the harder types such as swiss or manchego as opposed to Brie. He likes it as a lo-carb/hi protein snack. He drinks his coffee black and uses 1% milk with his oatmeal. He primarily eats skinless white meat chicken, lean cuts of beef or salmon most of the time. Apples, he could do w/o but maybe spread with almond butter. One thing that we don't do w/o transfats is peanut butter. We buy the lower fat variety, but it has to be Skippy! What I haven't seen mentioned here, and Linda, this would be beneficial for you, is that the statin drugs--Lipitor in particular--may have some effect in reducing tumors of the colon. If that's the case, it may not be such a bad drug to take. Sometimes, I think we fight taking a pill, just because we want to do it "naturally" with niacin etc. but it's not the best choice. I definitely believe in diet and exercise, but in many cases like Annie's or DH's or Sharon's, it's genetics, plain and simple. So fight it with the entire arsenal!...See MoreA homemade, lower cholesterol, calorie, & salt buttery spread
Comments (4)I bought the liquid lecithin at my local health food store. I really don't know how important it is to the recipe. I know that many bakers advocate adding it to baked goods. According to Pleasant Hill Grain.com, "As a 100% natural emulsifier, lecithin improves moisture tolerance and uniform suspension of ingredients and shortens mixing times. Bread texture and elasticity are improved, and crusts are more tender. Fats and oils are stabilized, reducing rancidity and prolonging freshness." I've also included a link to the Bob's Red Mill fact sheet about lecithin. I wanted to experiment with adding it to my homemade breads, but never got around to purchasing it. When I saw it listed as an ingredient in the Laurel's Kitchen recipe, I finally decided to break down and visit the health food store. I'm assuming that the dry milk powder adds some body to the butter spread and the lecithin helps emulsify & stabilize the spread a bit. Here is a link that might be useful: Bob's Red Mill Facts about Lecithin...See MoreRethinking Cholesterol and Statins
Comments (30)I don't normally post here but I just had to chime in on this one. I hope no one minds. I was put on Lipitor several years ago for high cholesterol. No one bothered to tell me that when statins are combined with grapefruit, their strength is multiplied about 17 times. I woke up one morning and couldn't get up out of bed without searing pain in my lower back, running down one leg. I started doing research and found the information about the grapefruit. I stopped both the grapefruit AND the statins. I now live with pain in my lower back that they now tell me is spondylolisthesis, but that I never had before taking statins. About once a year, I have severe muscle spasms in my lower back that cause me to have to go to bed for days. Even though I hate pain medication and prednisolone, I take it then because it's the only thing that dulls the pain and stops the spasms. After the spasms are over, I am still in quite a lot of pain that decreases somewhat with time but never leaves me entirely. My doctor tells me statins do not cause the kind of pain I have. Another doctor told me that, though it's possible the statins caused the initial muscle spasm, all that would've gone away once I discontinued the drug. They continue to try to convince me to begin statins again. I am 62 now, having had this problem for the last 6 years. I am convinced this was brought on by the statins and I am angry that the medical community is in denial about it. We are nothing but guinea pigs to the drug industry and it's like the doctors are less informed about the drug side effects than we are! It reminds me of when I was in my early 40's and going into menopause. Several doctors tried to get me to go on estrogen replacement therapy -- it was the only way, they told me, to avoid osteoporosis and heart problems(which I don't have today). I'm glad I didn't stay on that very long. DH's doctor had him on Baycol for awhile. He started having back pain so the doctor took him off it and his pain went away. Not long after that, they recalled that drug. Scarey, huh? My confidence in my doctor, and any other doctor, is now totally destroyed. I won't take any medication on a regular basis. I would rather die of what's really wrong with me rather than die from the side-effects of a drug that, by the way, costs over $100 for a month's supply. The mere fact that they have to check your liver function so often while you are on statins should be a red flag. I never knew of anyone in my family that had this. It has changed my life and caused me to have to give up many things I enjoyed. My parents, by the way, lived to be 93. Thanks for letting me rant....See Moretasymo
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