RE: High Cholesterol - Good HDL to Total Ratio. What to Do?/Suze

[Guest guest]

Thanks for your thoughts, Suze. My current thinking is similar to

yours. I am planning on getting the Uffe Ravnskov book from the

library next week. Have already been on some of the links in your

SIG line but will review them again. In fact, those links are what

have been bringing me around to thinking that as long as I continue

to adjust my diet according to my nutritionist and exercise and do

other good lifestyle things, there is no need to do anything else. I

will be discussing this with my nutritionist next week and will post

her thoughts if anything significant comes out of it.

Joan

> > High Cholesterol - Good HDL to Total Ratio. What to

Do?

> >

> >

> >Has anyone dealt with this problem:

>

> Yes, but I don't consider it a problem.

>

>

> I have a family history of high

> >cholesterol. Despite the fact that my weight and general health

are

> >fine, mine ranges from the 270s to the 320s. For the last 20 years

> >I've been doing the skim milk, low fat thing to no avail.

>

> That could actually raise your total cholesterol level.

>

>

> Now I'm

> >seeing a nutritionist and an alternative physician. The

nutritionist

> >put me on to Nourishing Traditions, and I've been transitioning to

> >that diet (coconut oil, butter, kefir, lots of greens), plus taking

> >fish oil capsules and making salad dressing including flax seed

oil to

> >try to help the situation.

>

> IMO, there is no situation here that requires " help " . I encourage

you to

> read " The Cholesterol Myths " by Uffe Ravnskov and the links in my

sig line.

>

>

> My recent blood tests were: Total Chol:

> >319, HDL 94; HDL ratio to total 3.4 - which is supposed to be

pretty

> >good; LDL 225. These numbers show virtually no change pre- and

post-

> >my change to Nourishing Traditions foods. My regular doctor wants

to

> >put me on Lipitor and the alternative doctor wants to put me on red

> >yeast rice and niacin -- and I don't want to do either! I'm in my

> >early 50s. Has anybody had similar experience -- what did you do?

>

> My one and only cholesterol test last fall showed my total

cholesterol at

> 273. My ratio is " good " like yours. My ND and I are totally

unconcerned

> about the total level. The " healthy " range is essentialy an

arbitrary

> number. The committee that determined this range was thinking of

making the

> healthy range around 300, IIRC. At the last minute they decided to

make it

> lower without any particularly compelling reason (although possibly

a

> financial reason). Don't sweat it. Your worrying about it may be

causing you

> harm while there's no reason to believe your cholesterol level is

doing any

> such thing. You will know what I mean if you read some of the links

in my

> sig.

>

> As for your doc's recommendation to take Lipitor, I'd suggest

finding a new

> doctor - one who actually knows what he's talking about.

>

>

> Suze Fisher

> Lapdog Design, Inc.

> Web Design & Development

> http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3shjg

> Weston A. Price Foundation Chapter Leader, Mid Coast Maine

> http://www.westonaprice.org

>

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> " The diet-heart idea (the idea that saturated fats and cholesterol

cause

> heart disease) is the greatest scientific deception of our times. " -

-

> Mann, MD, former Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry at

Vanderbilt

> University, Tennessee; heart disease researcher.

>

> The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics

> <http://www.thincs.org>

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>

> >

[Guest guest]

Joan, to reiterate something that Kara said that Dr. Cowan mentioned - in

older women, the higher the cholesterol level, the lower the death rate from

all causes. You're not quite to that age group yet though - I think it

starts around mid 60's. But worth keeping in mind :-)

Suze Fisher

Lapdog Design, Inc.

Web Design & Development

http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3shjg

Weston A. Price Foundation Chapter Leader, Mid Coast Maine

http://www.westonaprice.org

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“The diet-heart idea (the idea that saturated fats and cholesterol cause

heart disease) is the greatest scientific deception of our times.” --

Mann, MD, former Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry at Vanderbilt

University, Tennessee; heart disease researcher.

The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics

<http://www.thincs.org>

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