Comments on: Top 10 Cholesterol Lowering Foods

By: Carol

Carol — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:51:31 +0000

My husband’s cholesterol was through the roof. The list is great but I need recipes and menus. Breakfast is not a problem.

He travels during the week so my biggest meal preparations are on Friday and Saturdays and last week we had turkey for 3 of those meals. I don’t cook fish, because I don’t like the smell in my kitchen.

Can anyone point to a website that I can pull menus from or a more expansive lists of foods that lower-cholesterol.

Thanks.

By: Connie Smith

Connie Smith — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:37:29 +0000

About two years ago my husband’s cholesterol was 250. His doctor didn’t want to put him on drugs of any kind so she recommended that he take two fish oil pills per day, the kind from the deep sea. COSTCO sells them. He started to take them and in six months he dropped his level to 179. He is 60 years old, 5′ 11′ tall and weighs 185.

By: Dean Jenkins

Dean Jenkins — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 10:08:59 +0000

Just published an interesting case report which counters the assumption that natural substances can be taken without risk of harm. Whilst reducing LDL cholesterol plant sterols have not been shown to reduce cardiovascular risk.

http://blogs.bmj.com/case-reports/2009/08/08/plant-sterol-enriched-margarine-causing-xanthelasma/

By: ilyssahopkins

ilyssahopkins — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:49:00 +0000

Hi. I’m an intern at Johns Hopkins Medicine and working on a women’s health conference. You may be interested in knowing that Johns Hopkins Internist Dr. Jeanne Clark will talk about healthy weight loss, options—from popular diets and lifestyle changes to medication and surgery—to achieve realistic goals, and the short and long-term health effects of weight loss at A Woman’s Journey, Saturday, November 14, 2009. The lecture is described on the conference website: http://www.hopkindmedicine.org/awomansjourney.

By: Anne

Anne — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:07:57 +0000

Is this your porrige intake for the day? Alina

Anne

My Cholestrol is 7.3 dont want to take medication would prefer to try the diet way to reduce it.

P.S Do not publish e-mail address

By: John

John — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:30:35 +0000

Be aware of false “natural” claims on food labels. A couple of years ago, my total cholesterol was 189, with an optimal LDL to HDL ratio. Around the same time, I started eating a “natural” peanut butter daily. No partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, so no trans fats, but is does have PALM oil. Just had blood work done recently, and even though I exercise regularly, eat oatmeal for breakfast, whole grain bread for lunch, and generally watch my diet otherwise, cholesterol was 229 total. LDL was too high, everything else was OK. That “natural” peanut butter is the only thing I can put my finger on. My doc put me on a low level statin (there is family history – it might not be my diet alone) and I see him again in 4 months. I’ve got a spare tire around the middle to get rid of, too. I’m going to switch to almond butter and see if both the LDL and spare tire go down.

By: John

John — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:03:45 +0000

I found on another website (sorry, didn’t bookmark it) that almond milk has the same nutritional benefits as almonds. Do a search on “almond milk”; you’ll probably find the website I saw, plus others.

By: Wesley

Wesley — Fri, 22 May 2009 22:19:11 +0000

What about almond milk, like the kind that comes in a half gallon size in the organic section of the milk case?

By: Guru

Guru — Fri, 22 May 2009 04:27:46 +0000

Vrey informative..will start to work on low cholestrol diet.thks

By: Kat Hunter

Kat Hunter — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:13:40 +0000

Hey, Barbara! I found this very informative site by putting “cholesterol” on Google’s search line. I’m 62 and diabetic, so I’m re-learning how to eat. If you want to learn about arterioscleriosis, just put it on Google’s search line.