Anyone with high cholesterol?

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My doc and I would both do ecstatic handsprings and cartwheels if my cholesterol were that low!

I'm not on anything. Betcha all your doc will do is tell you to lower the amount of fat you eat and get more exercise.

Metamucil is more effective at lowering cholesterol and heart disease risk for women than statins, so don't decide to take statins as a shortcut.

(all the preliminary statin studies were done on men. even among men, the risk of heart attack is only lowered by 2%. the risk of muscle-wasting disease side effects is 15%. among women, the later studies found ZERO decrease in risk of heart disease. the cholesterol goes down, but the heart disease risk doesn't. you are better off changing your diet and activity levels and adding more fiber to your diet through food choices or psyllium husk fiber than taking statins.)

As my doc so lovingly said: Eat more vegetables and get off your butt!