Best way to bring down cholesterol?

RedViking said:
The answers to 99% issues are less sugar less carbs. Problem is people think Fat Free Low Gluten Weet-Bix is the same thing.
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Agreed, and it’s not always about simply driving cholesterol numbers down. By cutting back on sugar and refined carbs, you help make sure your cholesterol is healthy and not the kind that damages your arteries. It’s more about improving how cholesterol behaves in the body, not just lowering a number on a lab report.
 
RedViking said:
The answers to 99% issues are less sugar less carbs. Problem is people think Fat Free Low Gluten Weet-Bix is the same thing.
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My doctor referred to me his dietician. She's given me a plan which i can only say is about 2 steps away from walking into oncoming traffic lol.
Boiled vegetables, 2 slices of bread with no butter, hardly any fats at all maybe a teaspoon of oil per week lol, weetbix or cornflakes with fat-free milk, fruits - but not all the nice ones, and sometimes, sometimes, if i really cheat - a piece of fat-free chicken not fried with boiled veggies....

I haven't even started it yet. I don't want to spend my mornings crying.
 
BBSA said:
High triglycerides are basically a sign that your body is swimming in excess energy, mostly from sugars and refined carbs. When you eat more sugar than your muscles and liver can use or store as glycogen, your liver quickly converts the surplus into fat through a process called de novo lipogenesis. That fat gets packaged into triglycerides and sent into your bloodstream. So if triglycerides are high, it often means sugar is coming in faster than your body can burn it, and the liver is dumping the overflow as fat, a pretty clear hint that carbs (especially sugar) are overshooting your actual energy needs.
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Hmm interesting that.
 
neoprema said:
My doctor referred to me his dietician. She's given me a plan which i can only say is about 2 steps away from walking into oncoming traffic lol.
Boiled vegetables, 2 slices of bread with no butter, hardly any fats at all maybe a teaspoon of oil per week lol, weetbix or cornflakes with fat-free milk, fruits - but not all the nice ones, and sometimes, sometimes, if i really cheat - a piece of fat-free chicken not fried with boiled veggies....

I haven't even started it yet. I don't want to spend my mornings crying.
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Really sad that the dietician still recommends that. Even the US dietary guidelines have moved away from that nonsense.
 
neoprema said:
My doctor referred to me his dietician. She's given me a plan which i can only say is about 2 steps away from walking into oncoming traffic lol.
Boiled vegetables, 2 slices of bread with no butter, hardly any fats at all maybe a teaspoon of oil per week lol, weetbix or cornflakes with fat-free milk, fruits - but not all the nice ones, and sometimes, sometimes, if i really cheat - a piece of fat-free chicken not fried with boiled veggies....

I haven't even started it yet. I don't want to spend my mornings crying.
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Exactly! They are idiots. And then they printed that form Huisgenoot article or partnered with PnP or Checkers.
 
saor said:
Not to dimiss the opinion of your doctor / dietician but man...prescribing more refined carbs & less fat seems like a very outdated view.
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I know.. i also have issues with it.
So my weight is doing fine on the Mounjaro, but i didn't really have to eat specific foods other than avoiding spicy ones, and i don't really eat anything heavy at night. But yeah i will look for another diet i just saw the dietician to make him happy lol and he wanted feedback
 
neoprema said:
I know.. i also have issues with it.
So my weight is doing fine on the Mounjaro, but i didn't really have to eat specific foods other than avoiding spicy ones, and i don't really eat anything heavy at night. But yeah i will look for another diet i just saw the dietician to make him happy lol and he wanted feedback
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Just curious, is your doctor overweight?
 
BBSA said:
Just curious, is your doctor overweight?
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Nope.
He’s not young, very clever guy he’s Jewish, and also served as an official doctor for US military or government needs in South Africa like he’s authorized to consult for people deployed here.

But he doesn’t get involved in food and diet always refers you. But he was amazing during Covid, the time we got delta before vaccines he told us exactly what to do and we all survived. Gotta give him credit for that, lifesaver.
 
neoprema said:
My doctor referred to me his dietician. She's given me a plan which i can only say is about 2 steps away from walking into oncoming traffic lol.
Boiled vegetables, 2 slices of bread with no butter, hardly any fats at all maybe a teaspoon of oil per week lol, weetbix or cornflakes with fat-free milk, fruits - but not all the nice ones, and sometimes, sometimes, if i really cheat - a piece of fat-free chicken not fried with boiled veggies....

I haven't even started it yet. I don't want to spend my mornings crying.
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Lol, I'm with you on the boiled everything diets. I'd rather have that heart attack.
That being said they do tend to start extreme but I think there are better diets out there that are healthier as well than the carbs and boiled stuff ones.
 
Despite a careful diet as described above, Dr put me on Statins

Within a week I was experiencing rashes and stiff joints. He said they would wear off in 2 weeks, but they did not
I stopped taking statins and now, 8 weeks later the rashes have 95% disappeared

I do swallow 2 salmon oil capsules a day and eat chia seeds. Going for the next blood test at the end of the month

Prior to the statins story, Dr told me I was pre-diabetic so prescribed Metformin. My blood sugar varies between 5.4 and 5.8
 
neoprema said:
Nope.
He’s not young, very clever guy he’s Jewish, and also served as an official doctor for US military or government needs in South Africa like he’s authorized to consult for people deployed here.

But he doesn’t get involved in food and diet always refers you. But he was amazing during Covid, the time we got delta before vaccines he told us exactly what to do and we all survived. Gotta give him credit for that, lifesaver.
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Was he able to explain why your triglycerides are so high?
 
neoprema said:
My doctor referred to me his dietician. She's given me a plan which i can only say is about 2 steps away from walking into oncoming traffic lol.
Boiled vegetables, 2 slices of bread with no butter, hardly any fats at all maybe a teaspoon of oil per week lol, weetbix or cornflakes with fat-free milk, fruits - but not all the nice ones, and sometimes, sometimes, if i really cheat - a piece of fat-free chicken not fried with boiled veggies....

I haven't even started it yet. I don't want to spend my mornings crying.
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That sounds like a bunch of nonsense :unsure:
 
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NarrowBandFtw said:
to be fair, decades of official indoctrination is going to take time to dispel

US dietary guidelines moved away from that nonsense ... what like only a month ago?

https://twitter.com/x/status/2009030101426426219
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BBSA

Thread 'Dietary guidelines declare war on processed foods and sugar, encourage more protein and dairy'

The Trump administration on Wednesday issued a long-promised revamp of national dietary guidelines, urging Americans to eat more protein and less added sugar and, for the first time, discouraging consumption of highly processed foods.

The guidelines, despite widespread expectations, do not eliminate warnings about saturated fats but do encourage eating “healthy fat,” which they say includes beef tallow and butter as well as olive oil. They also include a new, inverted food pyramid, emphasizing the consumption of fruits and vegetables along with protein, dairy, and “healthy fats,” to...
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BBSA said:
Was he able to explain why your triglycerides are so high?
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He said its either food-related or hereditary or both. But he's given me medication for it as well....
 
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