Cholesterol Article

[Veronica]

I thought this was interesting.

http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2014...ol/#more-22468

I've always liked my meat and eggs.

Veronica

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This has been in the news a lot in the last year or two. I wish the late Dr. Atkins were still around. That dude deserves apologies from millions who vilified him for decades. When I cut way back on starches/carbs of all sorts I feel SO much better, my digestion is greatly improved, and I drop weight without significant effort. If I could go full-out ketogenic and still run and bike I would. I tried it for a couple of months after I busted my wrist in Nov. '12, but I couldn't make my body do any endurance stuff on super low carbs. I'm so all-or-nothing, unfortunately. I eat FAR more carbs than I need and it glues itself right to my butt, thighs, and upper arms.

DH's family is full of people who have horrible cholesterol and triglycerides, in spite of decades of dietary fat phobia (avoiding egg yolks and eating margarine and fat free cheese...blech!!). My family never jumped on that bandwagon. WI people don't eat crap like that, heh. We all have great blood work...sure, some of that's genetic, but we never embraced the sorts of "healthy" foods that are now being implicated in decades of increased #s of diabetes and ill health.

[NbyNW]

Thanks for this! I agree that there needs to be a re-examination in the medical community of what cholesterol means and how it is treated. I went through a lot of cholesterol monitoring this last year and am left with a big question mark. Basically I went to see a doctor about one thing, and unrelated to that, my cholesterol #s came back high. So she recommends extreme dietary changes and statins. And I tell her that 1) I'm breastfeeding, and the low-fat diet she is recommending is not what my child, who is underweight, needs -- in fact, the pediatric health visitors (I have no idea what their qualifications are) were telling me to eat MORE fat; and 2) both of my parents experienced severe muscle atrophy as a side effect of taking statins, and I was loathe to expose myself to that risk. She continued to push, and finally I asked her what effects these drugs would have if they were passed to my child through breast milk. Then she stopped pushing, but referred me to a specialist. Said specialist said it's normal for your cholesterol to be high while breastfeeding, so we really should wait until after weaning to be sure. Oh, and said specialist totally respected my desire to not take statins. This was a 6-8 month process and they still never properly diagnosed the issue I initially went in for.

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I can't access the full article, but I think the current issue of TIME's cover story is essentially saying to stop shunning fat and explaining why fat is definitely NOT the thing we should be avoiding and that doing so has caused a lot more issues.

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Here's the TIME article...not a subscriber, so I can't see it in its entirety.