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"elyob" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Well, got a warning that our family has high cholesterol, and then my bro comes back with a
slightly increased count .. so off I go. Results back in today, and I phone up "The doctor will
need to speak to you" ... Aarrgghh, is that a twinge?

Anyway, I get a call back a 'worried' hour later ... and everything is within reasonably good
order .. slightly up cholesterol, but no real concerns. Best to cut back on my lager intake,
methinks. Anyway .. point

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the story is that my cycling has brought my risk factor down as they put

it

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as aggressive exercise (100 miles+ a week). So good news, and better news

in

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a couple of years when I take my next test ... 🙂

(The only bad thing is that the recommended alcohol intake is about an average Friday & Saturday
night ... what the hell do I do the rest of the time .. <looks for bong under google>😉

Oh yeah, and I need to lose some weight .. looks like I'll need to stop eating [censored] food as
well ...

Nick

Nick!!, Welcome to 'Getting Old' (tm) ;-) Cheers, Dave....Considerably older than yow (probably ;-)

elyob said:

Well, got a warning that our family has high cholesterol, and then my bro comes back with a
slightly increased count .. so off I go. Results back in today, and I phone up "The doctor will
need to speak to you" ... Aarrgghh, is that a twinge?

You've doubtless read of the Atkin's diet - but reading Atkin's basis for the diet he proposes is
quite interesting. Well worth a read if you can lay your hands on it (BTW, strip out the gung ho US
approach to all things to make it digestible - oops no pun intended). An interesting result of the
diet is increased HDL and reduced cholesterol levels over all. Consult your GP before adopting any
particular diet (they all seem relaxed about this for the short and medium but not longer term). Not
using it myself .... yet. ;-)

In "]news:[email hidden], elyob <[email hidden]> typed:

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(The only bad thing is that the recommended alcohol intake is about an average Friday & Saturday
night ... what the hell do I do the rest of the time .. <looks for bong under google>😉

Oh yeah, and I need to lose some weight .. looks like I'll need to stop eating [censored] food as
well ...

My cholesterol doctor told me to go home and drink a couple of glasses of red wine every evening.
Now that is what I call a great doctor. I follow that instruction to the letter. He also told me to
cut out the beer, so I suppose I got it about half right.

pk

"elyob" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Well, got a warning that our family has high cholesterol, and then my bro comes back with a
slightly increased count .. so off I go. Results back in today, and I phone up "The doctor will
need to speak to you" ... Aarrgghh, is that a twinge?

Anyway, I get a call back a 'worried' hour later ... and everything is within reasonably good
order .. slightly up cholesterol, but no real concerns. Best to cut back on my lager intake,
methinks. Anyway .. point

of

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the story is that my cycling has brought my risk factor down as they put

it

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as aggressive exercise (100 miles+ a week). So good news, and better news

in

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a couple of years when I take my next test ... 🙂

My count is only 3.3 and I drink a fair bit of real ale in a week, so I don't think that beer is
the culprit for high cholesterol. Most of it is genetic as your body makes it's own cholesterol in
the liver. Eating saturated fats does not help either.

--
Simon Mason Anlaby East Yorkshire. 53°44'N 0°26'W simonmason.karoo.netsimonmason.karoo.netOpen ↗

"Dave" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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Nick!!, Welcome to 'Getting Old' (tm) ;-) Cheers, Dave....Considerably older than yow
(probably ;-)

Bah! I'm 'only' 31 ... 😉

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In "]news:[email hidden], elyob <[email hidden]> typed:

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(The only bad thing is that the recommended alcohol intake is about an average Friday & Saturday
night ... what the hell do I do the rest of the time .. <looks for bong under google>😉

Oh yeah, and I need to lose some weight .. looks like I'll need to stop eating [censored] food as
well ...

My cholesterol doctor told me to go home and drink a couple of glasses of red wine every evening.
Now that is what I call a great doctor. I follow that instruction to the letter. He also told me
to cut out the beer, so I suppose I got it about half right.

Shopping list .... Red Wine 🙂

"Simon Mason" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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My count is only 3.3 and I drink a fair bit of real ale in a week, so I don't think that beer is
the culprit for high cholesterol. Most of it is genetic as your body makes it's own cholesterol
in the liver. Eating saturated fats does not help either.

Yeah, He reckons I'm in a really low risk of anything bad happening and it's only 6.6 ... Will
consider it more when choosing what I'm eating, but it ain't gonna kill my 'social life' ... unless
it gets me first ... 🙂

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elyob said:

Well, got a warning that our family has high cholesterol, and then my bro comes back with a
slightly increased count .. so off I go. Results back in today, and I phone up "The doctor will
need to speak to you" ... Aarrgghh, is that a twinge?

You've doubtless read of the Atkin's diet - but reading Atkin's basis for the diet he proposes is
quite interesting. Well worth a read if you can

lay

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your hands on it (BTW, strip out the gung ho US approach to all things to make it digestible -
oops no pun intended). An interesting result of the diet is increased HDL and reduced cholesterol
levels over all. Consult

your

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GP before adopting any particular diet (they all seem relaxed about this

for

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the short and medium but not longer term). Not using it myself .... yet. ;-)

Just had pate & mayo sandwiches, hold the salad .. (no salad in my fridge) .. not a great start ..
probably have a huge take-away later ...

elyob said:

"Simon Mason" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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My count is only 3.3 and I drink a fair bit of real ale in a week, so I don't think that beer is
the culprit for high cholesterol. Most of it is genetic as your body makes it's own cholesterol
in the liver. Eating saturated fats does not help either.

Yeah, He reckons I'm in a really low risk of anything bad happening and it's only 6.6 ... Will
consider it more when choosing what I'm eating, but it ain't gonna kill my 'social life' ...
unless it gets me first ... 🙂

If there's a history of haemorrhagic stroke in your family, then a slightly above normal cholesterol
may be helpful in reinforcing arterial walls. That's what my doc said about my 5.6 level; my Dad
died of such a stroke.

--
Succorso

"elyob" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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"Dave" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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Nick!!, Welcome to 'Getting Old' (tm) ;-) Cheers, Dave....Considerably older than yow
(probably ;-)

Bah! I'm 'only' 31 ... 😉

Heh....it's a loooong process. Actually starts about 21 in the male of the species and 35 in the
female, slowly at first but then..... ;-)

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Well, got a warning that our family has high cholesterol, and then my bro comes back with a
slightly increased count .. so off I go. Results back in today, and I phone up "The doctor will
need to speak to you" ... Aarrgghh, is that a twinge?

Anyway, I get a call back a 'worried' hour later ... and everything is within reasonably good order
.. slightly up cholesterol, but no real concerns. Best to cut back on my lager intake, methinks.
Anyway .. point of the story is that my cycling has brought my risk factor down as they put it as
aggressive exercise (100 miles+ a week). So good news, and better news in a couple of years when I
take my next test ... 🙂

(The only bad thing is that the recommended alcohol intake is about an average Friday & Saturday
night ... what the hell do I do the rest of the time .. <looks for bong under google>😉

Oh yeah, and I need to lose some weight .. looks like I'll need to stop eating [censored] food
as well ...

Nick

Cutting back on the alcohol will help you lose weight. Alcoholic drinks have high calorie levels.
--
Michael MacClancy

"elyob" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Well, got a warning that our family has high cholesterol, and then my bro comes back with a
slightly increased count .. so off I go. Results back in today, and I phone up "The doctor will
need to speak to you" ... Aarrgghh, is that a twinge?

Things that bring cholesterol down.

Almost total avoidance of saturated fat (Suicide risk goes up) Simvastatin (or any good
statin). Benecol.

Things that make no difference porridge, red wine, beer.

The truth is at 6.6 you should probably be taking a statin now.

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"elyob" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Well, got a warning that our family has high cholesterol, and then my

bro

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comes back with a slightly increased count .. so off I go. Results back

in

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today, and I phone up "The doctor will need to speak to you" ...

Aarrgghh,

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is that a twinge?

Things that bring cholesterol down.

Best solution is to change your genes!

pk

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"elyob" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Well, got a warning that our family has high cholesterol, and then my bro comes back with a
slightly increased count .. so off I go. Results back in today, and I phone up "The doctor will
need to speak to you" ... Aarrgghh, is that a twinge?

Things that bring cholesterol down.

Almost total avoidance of saturated fat (Suicide risk goes up) Simvastatin (or any good statin).
Benecol.

Things that make no difference porridge, red wine, beer.

The truth is at 6.6 you should probably be taking a statin now.

Given his age and diet, 6.6 is easily reducible via exercise and diet. There's no general "you
should be taking statins now" because of all the co-factors that are unique to the individual.

I have a friend who measured 10.3 and through all the ECGs etc had no diminution in heart function
or family history. Quantity dieting didn't happen (but his level fell to 8 ish) so he eventually
took the statins after a decade of being nagged by his doctor. He got really fit in the period and
the ECG showed it but they still pushed the statins.

There was a big news thing on statins 2-3 months ago. Rather like the the idea that taking 1/2 an
aspirin a day is good for almost everyone, statins are now so well established that specialists
reckon that, along the aspirin principle, everyone should take them and would benefit.

Bringing the much contested Atkins diet in may be relevant here as it boosts HDL levels and reduces
overall cholesterol levels. Lots of bacon and eggs and lower cholesterol, there's a thought. ;-)