Comments on: Study: HDL, Triglycerides Better Markers For Cardiovascular Risk Than LDL

By: Blaise

Blaise — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 05:51:00 +0000

I strongly agree that triglyceride levels have been sadly underestimated (and outright ignored) in predicting damage to one’s health. AND it’s actually CRIMINAL how many health professionals push “low-fat” diets and bad-mouth “low-sugar-and-starch” diets. Do they think that the human body cannot turn sugar and long-chain-sugars (= starches) into
fats. Where were they in junior high school and high school health/biology/chemistry classes?

I would like to refer you to this web link

http://people.subdude-site.com/WebPicsBlaise/DATA4Blaise/BlaiseBloodStats/bloodstats_blaise.htm

where I actually correlate triglyceride levels with 3 or 4 different unhealthy conditions.

I unintentionally turned myself into a “sugar guinea pig” (a medical experiment).

It should not be hard for health researchers to find people to volunteer their blood test records and general descriptions of their medical problems (similar to my descriptions) and thus generate
significant research papers at very low-cost — way lower costs than the costs pharmaceutical companies are incurring to synthesize, search-for-data-on-benefits (but not side-effects), clinically-justify, lobby-for, and market still more cholesterol drugs.

By doing such research, they can turn my “anecdotal evidence” into
“evidence-based research”.

By: Jimmy Moore

Jimmy Moore — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:56:00 +0000

CONGRATULATIONS, Robin! I bet you feel awesome with that diet and I’m proud of you for your success.

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:07:00 +0000

Just want to note that I eat a high (good) carb diet (60% carbs), and my trigs have dropped by HALF to 56, and HDL has remained high at 67. LDL also dropped by about 10 pts.

By: Lady Atkins

Lady Atkins — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 04:08:00 +0000

I don’t know, Jimmy. Like you, my cholesterol went way up eating low-carb (both HDL and LDL went up). I suspect eggs are the culprit in my case so I’ve cut back how many I eat.

By: renegadediabetic

renegadediabetic — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:29:00 +0000

Jimmy, I know how you feel about not wanting your doctor to check your cholesterol. For me, as a diabetic, they are even more obsessive about it. My LDLs were high and my HDLs low when I was first diagnosed. About a month later, my LDLs were lower, but not low enough and my doctor said Lipitor. However, I ran into people who had bad reactions to Lipitor. When I researched it, I found even more side effects to Lipitor that the medical establishment doesn’t like to acknowledge. Needless to say, I didn’t get the prescription filled. It was also about that time I came to my senses on low carb. I had to eventually face my doctor again. We checked it again and my LDLs were 101 with improved HDLs. I know it will be checked periodically and I am concerned about it creeping up too much so that the S-word is mentioned again.

They are so fixated on cholesterol that they miss other risk factors, such as high blood sugar (even at levels that the medical establishment calls “normal”), high insulin levels, etc. There are those who say that all diabetics should be on statins and that diabetics should get their LDL cholesterol even lower than 100. It has more to do with selling drugs than with health.

By: Jimmy Moore

Jimmy Moore — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:28:00 +0000

You are exactly right, Kate. Dietary cholesterol does NOT (I REPEAT!) does NOT raise your blood cholesterol levels as has been often theorized by the so-called experts fooling the uneducated into taking dangerous and expensive statin drugs.

The truth is slowing seeping into parts of our culture, but it hasn't hit the mainstream. Cholesterol tests like VAP and Liposcience are too costly for most people and insurance doesn't cover them. Unfortunately, you usually have to go through a doctor to administer them.

What we need is a nationwide database of low-carb friendly doctors we can access. Nobody has created such a list, but it is SORELY needed.