High Cholesterol - Good HDL to Total Ratio. What to Do?

[Guest guest]

Has anyone dealt with this 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. 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. 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?

Thanks.

Joan