Cholesterol levels

Justie

don't Lloyds chemists do them too?

Ted_Hutchinson

The Radio 4 programme Check Up was on Heart Attacks today and talked about Cholesterol so it may be worth clickingListen Again as we cannot give medical advice, or even healthy living advice, it seems, perhaps you would find the information at these links helpful.

British Heart Foundation Reducing your Blood Cholesterol

Lowering Cholesterol with a Healthier Way of Eating

Heart Disease Vitamin d

Calcium, vit. D may help cholesterol levels during weight loss

Dietary flaxseed significantly improves lipid profile in hyperlipidemic patients and may favorably modify cardiovascular risk factors This thread Flaxseed Wow has lots of useful flax info.

ktb

Garlic is very good for lowering the cholesterol in blood... increase your intake of fresh fish (in particular herring, mackeral, tuna & salmon)....

my parents use the benecol stuff... dont know how good it is tho.

There is plenty you can do diet wise to help yourself (as per the links above i'm sure)...Most likely it will mainly involve irradicating anything processed from your diet - processed food usually contains high levels of salt and bad saturated fats.

Ted_Hutchinson

Justie wrote:

don't Lloyds chemists do them too?

It looks like a Cholesterol test would be part of their Free Diabetes test.

Ted_Hutchinson

ktb wrote:

Garlic is very good for lowering the cholesterol in blood...

None of the forms of garlic used in this study, including raw garlic, when given at an approximate dose of a 4-g clove per day, 6 d/wk for 6 months, had statistically or clinically significant effects on LDL-C or other plasma lipid concentrations in adults with moderate hypercholesterolemia.

ktb

fair enough... scrap that advice then! I must have an outdated source.

Ted_Hutchinson

ktb wrote:

fair enough... scrap that advice then! I must have an outdated source.

Well there may be other good reasons for eating garlicGarlic and Erectile Dysfunction
Take note also that my link was simply one piece of research and only lasted six months. Maybe for a year? Maybe keep going for a couple of years and would the story and conclusion still be the same?
Don't dump the garlic , just don't rely on it as it's probably not an effective short term solution.

ktb

Ted_Hutchinson wrote:

Well there may be other good reasons for eating garlic..

ooooooooh matron! *blushes*

plus I suppose if you are increasing your intake of something like garlic you are (hopefully) most likely to do that by cooking with fresh ingredients, from scratch .. which is obviously a step in the right direction!

UKTigerlily

Mine went from 5.7 to 4.2, which sounds ok but it's not because of my HDL & LDL ratio which is what matters more than the total :!!