Just had a cholesterol test done, after all I am 42 and all that lol. It came back as a tut tut tut its bad and you need to eat less red meat etc etc and if it does not improve yea gonna have to go on medication.
But no one has really answered some important question, so I thought I would get your views.
1- For someone my age what would be a good cholesterol figure, after all you can not compare my body to that of a 20 year old (ahhh those were the days lol). Am I just an average for someone my age. If I got 100 people my age, would we all have high cholesterol?
2- If you go on medication, when the cholesterol goes down why can you not come off it??. Surely it took 40 years to get that high, so once its down to healthy limits why can you not just come off it.
At the moment I am just watching what I eat and laying off the salt. Also taking chinese red rice to see what it does.
has anyone else faced these questions lol
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What's your figures Goose.?
I'm working like crazy to get mine down. It's 140, which is reasonably low, but the second figure, I can't remember that one, but that is easily adjusted by exercise.
So the first figure is what you take in and the second is how much you move.
Cut out red meat to once a week, eat pork, which is such a redesigned flesh it carries less cholesterol than chicken, and keep moving.
Also you inherit tendencies toward cholesterol, so some times you can do all the right things and still have high cholesterol. Which is why once you start a medication you can't just come off it.
If you do take a medication, make sure you eat something,even a slice of toast before taking the pill and also add COQ10 supplement with it, cos that way you don't get the side effects, which for his nibs and some of our pals was dizziness and a sort of swimmy head feeling.
My cholesterol was much higher when I was in my 40s but then I was always moving, then I slowed down, wrong, keep up the exercise and you'll be fine.
Oh and watch your intake of salt and processed meats, the worst for trapping cholesterol in the old bod. Best of luck grin
What's your figures Goose.?
I'm working like crazy to get mine down. It's 140, which is reasonably low, but the second figure, I can't remember that one, but that is easily adjusted by exercise.
So the first figure is what you take in and the second is how much you move.
Isn't that blood pressure? I read somewhere that anything below 200 is reasonably good for cholesterol. Mine is 139. I guess being a veggie doesn't harm it. Also, my parents have both got pretty low levels.
Cholestrol
--------------- Desirable ----- Borderline High ----- High
TOTAL ---- less than 200 ----- 200-239 ----- 240 and above
LDL ------- less than 130 ----- 130-159 ----- 160 +
(Bad)
HDL ------- More than 60 ----- 60 - 35 ------ Below 35
(Good)
Triglycides ---- Less than 200 ----- 200 - 399 ----- 400-1000
I have very Low figures(except for my HDL)
Total=138
LDL = 80
HDL = 40 ( I am on the low side) sad
Trig. = 91
Still, with figures in this range all my life. I had to undergo a double By-pass operation. roll sad
Going by those figures..I should be dead.
I have no idea what my numbers are but I know I am borderline with the bad stuff and I try so hard to eat right. I don't exercise as much as I should but I do take the stairs instead of elevators etc. Hubby, who is 42 (I'm 41), 43 next month, has absolutely perfect colesterol and eats absolutely anything he wants, doesn't eat fruit and veg unless he forces himself to (which he has as he as got older), loves his burgers and steaks, and doesn't exercise (unless you count the occasional dirtbiking trip). He would rather drive to 7/11 and the library which are both 2 blocks from our house! evil AND, to top it all, his weight is perfect, and his blood pressure too evil
What's your figures Goose.?
I'm working like crazy to get mine down. It's 140, which is reasonably low, but the second figure, I can't remember that one, but that is easily adjusted by exercise.
So the first figure is what you take in and the second is how much you move.
Isn't that blood pressure? I read somewhere that anything below 200 is reasonably good for cholesterol. Mine is 139. I guess being a veggie doesn't harm it. Also, my parents have both got pretty low levels.
My bad number is the LDL, but then I wasn't moving letting alone exercising. I now walk daily and do my yoga and have lost that puffiness water weight and inexercise give you so I'm guessing it's gone down. I don't want a statin or anything else loading down my liver. I want champagne, it's Christmas. :lol: