Posted on 10/25/2019 7:13:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Animal fat and protein. The key elements of a health diet.
New Study: Old Age Associated With Longer Life!
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Cholesterol alone doesn’t kill you.
Triglycerides will. And triglycerides are from excess glucose levels in your blood.
Watch the carbs, man.
i’m gonna live forever then!
For later
Sitting down with an old friend at his favorite BBQ joint, I noticed he ordered the biggest plate they had. He smiled and said, “My doctor said my cholesterol’s too low, gotta get it up!”
At the time it was a great joke. Now, it isn’t?
Has anyone experienced this? You go on a sushi binge, where you eat sushi, like two days in a row...no rice, just sashimi...raw fish.
Then you go home that night, and you get this unbelievable craving for fat...and so you end up eating a bowl of cereal and milk, a peanut butter sandwich, or you might even stop and order a Wendy’s on the way home.
You put Americans on a low fat diet, without meat fat, and you get almost psychotic...
Fat is satisfying. People stop eating once when consume some fat. People on a low fat diet are constantly hungry and they constantly eat. Then they wonder why they are fat.
I don’t know if I’m buying this “new” science. My cardiologist still seems to think my cholesterol numbers matter almost than any other data points from the blood tests I have done.
I had a history of high cholesterol. After several episodes of chest pain and shortness of breath over a number of years, I was finally diagnosed with 3 plugged arteries in 2009. I had 3 stents installed.
Now I take Crestor (statin) and Lovaza (fish oil) to keep my numbers in the desired range. Cholesterol and triglycerides are now almost as good as can be.
Most people don't realize that in the absence of dietary cholesterol, your body will produce cholesterol - and not necessarily the good kind. So avoiding it in your diet is rather pointless. Like I said, there are many other elements that contribute to a healthy lifestyle so I don't understand all the focus on one's cholesterol number.
I eat fried eggs (in butter) pretty much every morning. On weekends, I add bacon and sausage. I eat healthy amounts of other foods that are said to be high in cholesterol such as liver, cheese and shellfish. My blood work is just fine and my cholesterol level has hovered in the 190-210 range for years and years.
There are many other things I do that are beneficial to my overall health but I certainly don't "watch" or worry about my cholesterol.
I did keto for a while. Tracked calories because it’s HARD to get 70% from fats. Started putting olive oil on eggs and coconut oil in coffee, which I still do on a lower carb diet.
There are so many variables that it’s impossible to have a blanket approach for everyone. There are different types of LDL, attached to one type of LDL is lp(a), and high levels of that (inherited from parents) is quite dangerous.
At 45 I am the only person in my biological family who hasn’t had a heart attack. Sadly, my younger brother passed away from one two weeks ago. My doctors have been dismissing my concerns regarding lp(a) because I “look perfect on paper “ for years, but I know I have a 50/50 chance of elevated lp(a). The ME stressed that if my brother had any siblings or children they need to see a cardiologist. I’m so very sad that it took his death for me to be taken seriously. Sadder still is that despite knowing our family history, he didn’t take it seriously himself.
I completely concur. I live a similar life and my cholesterol levels are low.
Life is just a spin of the wheel so just enjoy it while you can
My 93 1/2 year old MIL has always had high cholesterol...but, she’s FINNISH....Finns are known to have high cholesterol. I don’t know how she does it, as she mostly eats CARBS.
RE: but, she’s FINNISH..
Whew, for a moment I thought I read FINISH. LOL.
There ya go.
While I don't do anything directly bad in my eating habits, I certainly don't do all the silly "counts" and "charts" and all the other stuff.
My father died at age 85, natural causes...meaning he just wore it out.
His cholesterol count was measured in the 400 range as early as 20 years prior to his death.
His personal physician was apoplectic and always prescribing all kinds of cholesterol drugs...which Pop would not take and continued to eat any damned thing he wanted to eat...heavy on the red meat and eggs.
No one in my family, both sides, have died a natural death before the age of 82, with a few living well in the century mark...at least eight that I know of.
And none of them ever worried about cholesterol.
Uh, no.
I have genetically high cholesterol, and uh, no.
My life is going to be short, just like my dad’s was for the same reason.
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