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To: donc who wrote (215521)	8/13/2009 12:06:50 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

The reason my Grandfather believed we don't have high cholesterol is because we don't eat sugar or refined carbohydrates which cause problems with insulin. If I do eat a lot of sugar or refined carbohydrates over a several week period, I can show you a blood panel with high triglycerides and high cholesterol. My grandmother had extremely high triglycerides and cholesterol and was obese. She had candy strategically hidden throughout her homes, See's Bordeaux's, Butterscotch balls, Almond Roccas all washed down with RC Cola which she actually had delivered once a month from the distributor. She was perpetually on a diet and had a huge supply of non-fat low-cholesterol foods. She had everything short of her own hummingbird feeder. It was comical. She and my Granddad fixed separate meals. Everyone's body can produce all of the cholesterol they need if it had too. But like most systems in the body, this should be regulated to supplement your dietary sources. If this process is not regulated, there's something amiss. A small percentage of people do have a genetic defect called familial hypercholesterolemia. But most others have a dietary problem like my Grandmother. There's plenty of cholesterol in a Mediterranean diet, but precious little sugar or refined carbohydrates and certainly no high fructose corn syrup or hydrogenated fats. My Doctor was sold on the Heart Association diet and still had high cholesterol. He took my advice and eliminated sugar and refined carbohydrates for a month and replaced this with more fat. His cholesterol level plunged. The toughest change for him was replacing his "healthy" morning oatmeal with eggs. It went against every myth he had previously learned. But I periodically see he's slipped, having a lunch of Coca-Cola, potato salad and other carbs with very little protein or fat. Each to their own. .