lowering total cholesterol

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From: " Berkovitz " <michelleberkovitz@y...>

Date: Wed Jul 28, 2004 10:15 pm

Subject: lowering total cholesterol

I need help planning some dietary changes for my non-CRON husband,

whose cholesterol is creeping too high. He continues to claim that

if he could just get more exercise he can push it back down from 204

to 180, where it used to be in his early 40s. He's 48 now. HDL is 66

and LDL is 129. [snip]

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, in 1988 at age 46 my cholesterol was 223. Today, at age 61

it is 182. Exercise basically did nothing to reduce my cholesterol.

What really helped was diet. Most important: Eliminate hydrogenated

and partially hydrogenated fats. No commercial puff pastry, no fried

foods like french fries, chicken filets, doughnuts, nothing with

Crisco, beware of margarines, etc. Read food labels carefully. (see

my web page on labels for tricks that manufacturers use:

http://www.scientificpsychic.com/fitness/labels.html )

By eliminating hydrogenated fats my cholesterol went from 223 to 209.

By dieting to get my Body Mass index into the normal range (BMI below

25) my cholesterol dropped to 182. I have lost weight basically by

eliminating pastries and increasing my intake of protein and colorful

vegetables. Currently, my BMI is 23.0 and I am looking forward to my

next blood test in September.

Tony