Last year, my husband turned into a vegan when his cholesterol was high. I am not. I like meat and dairy products.
A few weeks ago, he wanted to surprise me for dinner. He took me to one of his favorite new restaurants.
I can handle not eating meat, but I don’t like tofu.
I ordered a salad from this restaurant, but it had some sort of strange salad dressing on it.
Then my husband got us Kung Pao Fake Chicken dish. Ughhh. I like regular Kung Pao Chicken. After we ate at this restuarant, my stomach was upset all night long.
I’m not overweight, and I don’t have high cholesterol, so I can eat meat.
Has your husbands cholesterol dropped after going vegan?
Reason I ask is that my cholesterol DROPPED 80 points (from 220 - 153, no meds) when I went low carb (which includes eating meat, cheese, eggs, etc).
For some people (and I’m one of them) it’s the high insulin levels caused by too many carbs that cause the high cholesterol (high insulin causes inflammation and damage which the body then produces cholesterol as “spackle” to repair).
Reducing the carbs reduces the inflammation and thus the cholesterol levels.
If your husband still has problems even after going vegan he may want to rethink what he’s doing.
My DH went strictly very low-fat and low-meat when his cholesterol was high and all it did was go up. After what happened with me he went low-carb and now doesn’t need statins anymore.
It’s counterintuitive and counter to conventional medical dogma but it does work for many of us.
Just my experience,
LQ