Yikes ! High Cholesterol - Help !

I just got the results of my 1st ever cholesterol test :

HDL - 42.46 = 1.1mmol/L
Cholesterol - 228.33 = 5.9mmol/L
LDL - 167.1 = 4.33mmol/L
Glucose normal

These numbers apparently put me in 'borderline' categories for HDL and
Cholesterol, and 'high risk' for LDL. I'm a caucasian male 34 years
old.

Any dietary advice ?

Thanks,

Blewyn

Does it put you into metabolic syndrom risk is the better
question. This is often preceeded by high insulin
resistence. A thumb nail measure of this is the lipid
profile, including the triglyceride number you didn't
provide. A ratio of trig/hdl of 3 or less is a good number.
A trig higher then 150 is cause for concern. What was your
blood glucose number?

>I just got the results of my 1st ever cholesterol test :
>
>HDL - 42.46 = 1.1mmol/L Cholesterol - 228.33 = 5.9mmol/L
>LDL - 167.1 = 4.33mmol/L Glucose normal
>
>These numbers apparently put me in 'borderline' categories
>for HDL and Cholesterol, and 'high risk' for LDL. I'm a
>caucasian male 34 years old.
>
>Any dietary advice ?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Blewyn

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>Any dietary advice ?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Blewyn

You don't report TGLs here. If you're eating starches and
other sugars regularly, you might try cutting them down
or out, replacing them with veggies and greens and
healthy fats.

Susan

jheiskan@welho.com jwales@bomis.com TKNOTT@qcl.org.uk Once
upon a time, our fellow markd@toad-net.com rambled on about
"Re: Yikes ! High Cholesterol - Help !." Our champion De-
Medicalizing in sci.med.nutrition retorts, thusly ...

>Does it put you into metabolic syndrom risk is the better
>question. This is often preceeded by high insulin
>resistence. A thumb nail measure of this is the lipid
>profile, including the triglyceride number you didn't
>provide. A ratio of trig/hdl of 3 or less is a good number.
>A trig higher then 150 is cause for concern. What was your
>blood glucose number?

Excuse me, Mark 'the Toad,' but the question was diet.

Just thought that you might want to know.

markd@toad-net.com wrote in message news:<4049db54$0$249$4d5ecec7@reader.city-net.com>...
> Does it put you into metabolic syndrom risk is the better
> question. This is often preceeded by high insulin
> resistence. A thumb nail measure of this is the lipid
> profile, including the triglyceride number you didn't
> provide. A ratio of trig/hdl of 3 or less is a good
> number. A trig higher then 150 is cause for concern. What
> was your blood glucose number?

Trig = 92.4 Glucose = 83.6

Thanks,

Blewyn

You should check out the info at:

http://www.thelifestyledoctor.net/policosanolabstracts/

Personally, my cholesterol dropped 10% after taking
policosanol.

Ed Friedman

blewyn wrote:
> I just got the results of my 1st ever cholesterol test :
>
> HDL - 42.46 = 1.1mmol/L Cholesterol - 228.33 = 5.9mmol/L
> LDL - 167.1 = 4.33mmol/L Glucose normal
>
> These numbers apparently put me in 'borderline' categories
> for HDL and Cholesterol, and 'high risk' for LDL. I'm a
> caucasian male 34 years old.
>
> Any dietary advice ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Blewyn