Re: has anyone gotten their cholestrol check since starting the coconut oil?

[Guest guest]

I have, many times. My cholesterol started out quite low, so you may

not be able to compare my experience to yours. My LDL (bad

cholesterol) has gone up quite a bit, but my HDL (good cholesterol)

has gone up much more. My HDL has gone up from 55 to 118. The

Framingham heart study never saw a heart attack in anyone whose HDL

was above 70. My HDL is extremely high. The total ratio is what

counts (total cholesterol divided by HDL). My ratio has gone down:

from about 2.6 to about 2.2. Even 2.6 is very low to start with.

An isolated LDL value is not significant. I have this straight from

my very mainstream doctor, as well as from all of Bruce's excellent

material. Mainstream thinking about cholesterol is apparently

starting to change.

VCO will help keep the cholesterol in the arteries from oxidizing.

It is the oxidization that creates hard plaques, stiff arteries, and

heart attacks, not the cholesterol per se, which is a substance

created by the body to repair things.

People who had cholesterol too high often find that their LDL goes

down after trying VCO.

Nina

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> i am very scared!! i do not need to gain any weight or have my

> cholestrol go up. is this for real? can you actually lose weight

> with added 32 grams of saturated fat everyday? does your

cholestrol

> go up??? help!!!

>

[Guest guest]

I think you might be missing the point here a little . . . if you're taking

coconut oil just for the sake dropping weight, most likely you need to just

quit taking it and start Weight Watchers. You're not really concerned with

improving your overall health, just with shedding pounds. If you really

want to improve your overall health (which is obviously ALWAYS going to lead

to weight loss, though it might be slower than you want), it's going to take

more than just adding coconut oil to your diet to achieve that. It's going

to take a lifestyle change. Your weight might temporarily go up or not

change much at all while taking VCO - it's not a quick fix, but it's

definitely a healthy alternative to many other fats.

As for the cholesterol, not sure if you've read the past few posts about

that, but your cholesterol going up (even, " bad " cholesterol) is not always

a bad thing. One of the most informative websites someone here posted about

that topic was this one:

http://www.newswithviews.com/Howenstine/james23.htm

Thank goodness my husband read that article just before a doctor's

appointment where we was prescribed a statin drug. Now he's taking the

natural alternatives recommended in the article and trying to slowly change

his diet.

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On 10/16/06, jacqueline33875 <jacqueline33875@...> wrote:

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> i am very scared!! i do not need to gain any weight or have my

> cholestrol go up. is this for real? can you actually lose weight

> with added 32 grams of saturated fat everyday? does your cholestrol

> go up??? help!!!

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