Re: Latest Cholesterol testing

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Joe: what a great success story! I'm forwarding your post to my husband

who is currently trying to lose about 30 pounds.

on 2/19/2003 9:22 AM, joesmad2001 <fernaj@...> at

fernaj@... wrote:

> Had my cholesterol checked a week ago and here are my numbers (I have

> been on CRON since May of 2001). Total: 184, LDL: 122, HDL: 42,

> Triglycerides: 98, Glucose: 86. This is hte first time I have ever

> had all my numbers reported as normal. From three years ago my total

> Chol is down from 204, HDL up from 30, triglycerides down from 140,

> glucose down from 105. The HDL is what I am most happy about as that

> has been dropping every year from a high in 1994 of 40 (when I was 50

> lbs heavier and eating burgers andfries every day for lunch). What I

> have done different the past year to boost the HDL is eat a handfull

> of nuts to my CRON diet (mostly Almonds and one Brazilian nut).

>