Correction in my posting. It should read HDL not LDL.HDL is good cholestorel. I am looking for herbs to improve good cholestorel.

Eliminating Trans Fats from your diet will improve your HDL. Don't just depend on the "big print" on packaging that states 0 trans fats. Read the fine print and look for partially and fully hydrogenated fats and oils. Also watch out for Interestified fats. These are the newest modified fats the processed food industry is using to replace the old trans fats. The FDA allows food companies to claim zero trans fats, if the product contains 1/2 gm. or less per serving. So if you eat 2 servings of something that claims O trans. fat, you can easily be getting 1 gram of the very stuff you are trying to avoid. Your best bet is to avoid processed foods and fast foods as much as you can. After cutting trans fats from my diet, my HDL went up, my LDL went down and I've felt wonderful. I very seldom catch the various bugs that go 'round the work place, and if I do, they don't hit me as hard or last as long as they do my co-workers.

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

This is a favorite I got from my SIL. It was adapted from the recipe on the label of the key ingredient to this pasta salad - McCormick Salad Supreme Seasoning. PASTA SALAD 12-oz. spaghetti (cook, rinse, cut-up) 8 oz. Italian Dressing (bottled) 1 t. sugar 3 green onions, chopped 1 cucumber, seeded and chopped 1-2 tomatoes, seeded and chopped 1 sweet pepper (color of choice) 1/2 bottle (McCormick) SALAD SUPREME SEASONING (I use much less than this, so try 1 t., or to taste) Mix all ingredients together. Chill overnight. Keeps well in the refrigerator for several days. ------------------ I've altered it over the years to be LOTS of veggies, and only a small amount of pasta, which makes it less heavy and more refreshing. I add Italian dressing to taste (I use MUCH less than the recipe calls for). Once you've made it, it quickly becomes a what's-in-the-refrigerator dish, like it is with most pasta salads. A good recipe when you have a dab of cooked macaroni or spaghetti and some veggies that need to be used up. Although the recipe calls for spaghetti, any kind of pasta will work, and as much or as little as you'd like to use. It's all about the dressing and seasonings. -Grainlady