For those on a low cholestrol diet....

....any tips?

Basically, just wondering if anyone here has had to go on one for any
reason and what was the best thing they ever did to make the change.

Basically, im pushing 40 and dad had a major heart attack in January.
Thank feck he's ok and done well, including losing 2 stone and giving
up salt etc.

Decided that i should get checked out a month or 2 ago and everythings
good but the cholestrols on the upper side of normal so was given the
obligitory leaflets etc re diet etc.

All very well,but life (ironically) gets in the way.

So, any ideas or help or suggestions welcome from anyone thats had to
think or even face such a .....change I guess is the best word?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Donnie

Statins.

Sorted.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

I have already made the greatest contribution to the fight against climate
change that I can make: I have decided not to breed. Now quit bugging me and
go and talk to the Catholics.

 

**** changing my diet when one of these a day does the job
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simvastatin

 

Wicked Uncle Nigel said:

LOL, yes, but im still within normal range technically, so the gp aint
gonna go down the drug route methinks, which is fair enough really I
guess.

 

I've just checked boots.com as you can buy them over the counter now.
However, Zocor is only licensed for men over 45.

So, FUCKING CALM DOWN.

 

I'm on those, high cholesterol tends to be a genetic thing, and I found
that diet change made minimal difference. The statins, and pro-active
products seem to make the most difference.

A low dosage (70mg) aspirin a day helps a lot too.

 

****'s sake get a grip.

Your dad made it to, what, 60, before having a heart attack and he's a
fat bacon-munching motherfucker. And you're worried?

Gaylord.

 

AOL even being a veggie for 17 years didn't lower it.

Then again my heart seems to be bulletproof and blood pressure right at the
bottom of the healthy scale so I'm not sure what harm comes of it?

 

I thought it was general knowledge now that the body produces
cholesterol and the link between what you eat and what your body does,
at least as far as shit like eggs is concerned, is minimal.

ObOtherThread, it must be shit being old.

 

(Andy Hewitt) wrote in :

I take one of those too. With free 'scrips in Wales the GPs seem to go
overboard with prophylaxis.

Whilst the aspirin may reduce the risk of me having a thrombosis it is a
fucker when you cut yourself when gardening, as it takes ages to get
haemostasis in the wound.

 

I'm only 45 now, and have been on the statins for 9 years.

My gran had a cholesterol reading of 11, my Mum's was at 7.6 when she
had her stroke, er, 10 years ago. Mine was also at 7.6 when it was
tested just after Mum's stroke.

I tried diet at first, and some low level statins, but it took increased
dosage, and using things like Flora Pro-active to make any real progress
to reducing it.

Now I eat what I like, and it's pretty stable around 5.

 

I thought it was fairly well understood these days that the body makes
its own cholesterl for very good reasons and the link between eating
eggs and shit and having high blood cholesterol was pretty flimsy at
best.

So do I, and mine's around fuckknowswhat. As is my blood pressure.

Just as well I look after myself.

 

Having the gall bladder removed also helps, without it the gut is less
capable of digesting fatty food.

But the only real answer is cutting down on red meats[1] and doing picky
things such as opening up bacon sarnies to remove the fatty bits.

[1] Not all red meats are bad, venison has no cholesterol.

 

61 actually. Fitter now than he's ever been.

Indeed.

 

Depends on what doctor you listen to I guess. My own observation would
seem to confirm it though.

Aye, Mine is usually bang on normal.

Hmm, I haven't done, but have just bought a bicycle, and plan to get out
on it.

 

You do like to show us, again and again, just how many subjects you
can post cmoplete bollocks about, don't you. Your ignorance is now
legendary.

 

****, I want your doctor. My cholesterol's in the low 8's but the
fuckers won't give me drugs as I'm 'too young', despite my dad having
had a couple of bad strokes.

Think I might start getting them OTC.

 

I'm really quite reluctant to go that route, with a, possibly
irrational, reluctance to go on to lifetime medication.

It didn't help that the doc described the risk of heart disease as being
1 percentage point higher than the average bloke of my age.

I decided that, as a motorcyclist and skier, that fitted comfortably
within my risk appetite.

 

You might think that.

When mine was first measured, I cut out just about all junk food, ate
lots of white meat and fish and exercised regularly.

Despite losing 8kg in the process, my cholesterol count didn't change by
so much as a single decimal place.