Cholestorel

[The Munster]

Okay Lads and Lasses, what is your best tip on reducing cholestorel ?

[Captain Nemo]

I was told by my doctor to eat plenty of fruit and vegetables. By coincidence I had to have a blood test this morning to check if my level has gone down since my last visit to the doctor. If not, I may have to be prescribed cholesterol reducing drugs.

Nemo

[TteFAboB]

1 tablespoon of Extra-virgin Olive Oil with your meal/s, or whatever makes up 12g of its fat. It needs to be the real thing, and it has to be extra-virgin. And you don't need more than 2 tablespoons a day.

EDIT: The idea is to replace 12g of fat you already eat, not to add on top of the pile.

[bradclark1]

The problem with high cholestorel is that it is so easy to get bad fast food and harder to find healthy food.
I'm on high colestorel meds.

[geetrue]

A nice Greek salad and lots of hills to climb ... exercise breaks up the
fatty globbins and they dissolve in your blood stream instead of building
up plaque.

I also know how to tune up my own car, but like exercise I don't do it ... :oops:

I'm going to start as soon as the snow melts ... exercise that is ... :yep:

[joea]

Greek salad is good, exercise is good, u-boot cocktail only with skim milk. Errr :dead:

[Respenus]

Try eating Omega fats and vitamin E. It did wonders on my cholesterol and triglicerids level (dunno how to spell the second one).

[SUBMAN1]

1 tablespoon of Extra-virgin Olive Oil with your meal/s, or whatever makes up 12g of its fat. It needs to be the real thing, and it has to be extra-virgin. And you don't need more than 2 tablespoons a day.

EDIT: The idea is to replace 12g of fat you already eat, not to add on top of the pile.
Don't even get me started on this subject. Eating lots of Extra Virgin olive oil is very good for you. However, finding the best kind (unfiltered, preferably Greek) is a major chore. 99.999% on the shelves, even in the most expensive grocery stores, is filtered. Arrghh! :damn:

-S

PS. Thats it - I need to go home and cook something up now. :roll:

PPS. The last bottle of unfiletered I found was Spanish! It was still pretty good though.

[Hitman]

Well I must tell you what other here will not....and that is that sitting in front of your computer for many hours is for sure a bad habit when it comes to reducing cholesterol. So less SH4 and more exercise is a good choice :cry:

I think the most realistic diagnosis about cholesterol is the one I received from a friend who is a medic. Thus he adviced me as friend, not just as medic...he said: "The human body was not created for a lack of exercise. All those diets and pills against being fat and/or high "bad" cholesterol levels (Fat & cholesterol do not always come together BTW) are just a bad & cheap remedy for what our body really demands: EXERCISE, SPORT, MOVEMENT"

I have noted along the years that when going to a sports center three days a week and eating whatever I like (Even the dreaded McDonald's burgers) my cholesterol and weigth have always been in fact lower than when sitting a lot at home and eating a diet.

Well I said it, now you can start shooting at me :lol: but that's the truth!!:know:

PPS. The last bottle of unfiletered I found was Spanish! It was still pretty good though.

That doesn't amaze me because as everyone in the business knows, the spanish olive oil is the best in the world, even better than the "famous" italian and greek ones. The italian oil from sicilia is really really good, but other zones lack so much in production and quality that in fact they buy tons of oil here to mix with theirs. So you might probably have been already taking spanish oild for a long time. Sadly we in Spain have less marketing than the italians....:roll: And yes, pure olive oil is good against cholesterol, as also is "blue" fish (Sardina, atun, salmon, boqueron, anchoa etc...sorry I don't know the names in english), because both are rich in "positive" or "good" cholesterol.

[lesrae]

Take statins. ;) They've reduced my level from ~14 to ~8 in about 3 months (I suffer from familial hypercholesterolaemia which pretty much means my blood has a similar consistency to black pudding) it should improve further with my diet, giving up smoking and cutting down on the booze. Then I can lead a long, albeit slightly tedious, life.

[ASWnut101]

Cholestoraide!:up:








j/k.

[The Munster]

Thanks for the tips Guys, you've given me a lot to go on :up:
Can't stand fruit, so boring ! but some stuff I haven't heard of before ..
Greek Salad and Statins :hmm:
BTW, do you spoon the Extra Virgin stuff down the mouth or do you spread it over the meal ?

[The Avon Lady]

Atkins. Eat cholesterol to reduce cholesterol. :yep:

[bradclark1]

Take statins. ;) They've reduced my level from ~14 to ~8 in about 3 months
I use them as an excuse to keep up my bad ways.

[kiwi_2005]

Avoid milk & white sugar. IF u must drink milk in your coffee/tea, then go low fat milk * brown sugar.

[tycho102]

Atkins. Eat cholesterol to reduce cholesterol. :yep:

That's pretty close. People who stay on the Atkins fairly long term see a dramatic drop in their LDL cholesterol.

Aerobic exercise is a big one. Don't go for strength, go for duration. An hour a day on the elliptical tends to clean things out.

Tanning also has a significant impact. There are so many things that cholesterol and UVA are metabolic precursors to -- estrogen and testosterone are two big ones, and vitamin-D another.

A little booze. Clears (vodka, gin) are "best", with white wines and everything else following up. Fewer metabolites produced from the clears.

Vitamin B3, niacin. I'm not entirely sure of it's mechanism for cholesterol reduction because there's been a lot of conflicting studies -- some use niacinamide and the resulting acidity of your blood is thought to have a direct impact on the bleedin' buildup.

[joea]

Avoid milk & white sugar. IF u must drink milk in your coffee/tea, then go low fat milk * brown sugar.

Cultured dairy products are better for you in fact. :yep: