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Is this lchf diet only meant for overweight diabetic patients? What happens if you do not wish to lose any more weight?
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Southport GP finds it sustainable. If you want some bedtime reading ....
You might find this man interesting. Eating fat does little to your cholesterol level and high cholesterol does not give you heart disease.
"In this groundbreaking book, GP Malcolm Kendrick exposes the truth behind the hype, revealing: high cholesterol levels don’t cause heart disease; a high-fat diet – saturated or otherwise – does not affect blood cholesterol levels; and, the protection provided by statins is so small as to be not worth bothering about for most men and all women."
I got that paragraph from here but he also writes an informative blog.
https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/books-by-dr-malcolm-kendrick/the-great-cholesterol-con/
I followed LC/HF and lost all my excess weight. Once that happened I had to add back a few things I hadn't been eating in order to stop losing weight. This was cheese and cream mainly, and a few extra glasses of red wine. I have maintained my slim figure for around 18 months and now follow a VLC/VHF diet with no adverse affects on weight but improved blood sugars. Cholesterol is normal. Triglycerides are excellent. That is just my personal experience. Maintaining or gaining weight is all down to trial and error and isn't as easy as one may think. As well as eating to your meter you also have to eat to your scales.
It's fair to point out that eating high saturated high fat does a lot to some people's cholesterol, and many certainly don't like pushing cholesterol up regardless.
Many of us find lower cholesterol preferable, and do that by sticking to non saturated fats.
I'm of the belief that my cholesterol is just as high as my body needs it to be be - it's high because my body is healing. There's been some subtle shifts along the way, slowly coming down. Plus the one ratio that does seem important (triglycerides/HDL) is great. The only reason I even get it tested is because it's part of the protocol the GP's in Australia seem to have to follow. If I had a choice, I wouldn't bother - but the GP does it routinely as part of my other diabetes checks, so I go along to get along. Both GP and cardiologist have given up on trying to convince me to take statins - informed consent in actionI have a question for those people who believe so much in the LCHF diet. Do you have your cholesterol checked annually? What does your doctor tell you when you mention about this diet. If I am not mistaken, doctors are saying it is not sustainable in the long run, and yet there are people who swear by it and it really help with the blood sugars and lose weight too. How amazing is this? I might try it if it really helps with my blood sugar but will only eat non saturated fat like avocados, eggs, nuts, cheese and fish, no bacon or steaks. I cannot swallow that. Right now my doctor said my cholesterol is very good and I don't want it to go the other way.
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Truly sorry to hear about your condition and I hope your body will keep healing.I'm of the belief that my cholesterol is just as high as my body needs it to be be - it's high because my body is healing. There's been some subtle shifts along the way, slowly coming down. Plus the one ratio that does seem important (triglycerides/HDL) is great. The only reason I even get it tested is because it's part of the protocol the GP's in Australia seem to have to follow. If I had a choice, I wouldn't bother - but the GP does it routinely as part of my other diabetes checks, so I go along to get along. Both GP and cardiologist have given up on trying to convince me to take statins - informed consent in action
I've been reading on cholesterol for years now and am firmly in the "it's a crock" camp - Dr Kendrick, Dr Ravnskov and others have convinced me it's not a huge player in cardiac disease. Plus I'm not that fussed about heart disease to start with. We're all gonna die of something one day and of the many choices, CVD seems like one of the better ways to go. Infinitely preferable to cancer or autoimmune disease in my book. In fact, I'd infinitely prefer going that way to the end stage of the disease I already have (interstitial lung disease) - ugh
All part of being human I guess - learning to discriminate and making our own choices on the sources we consider trustworthy. I'm more afraid of 'analysis paralysis' than I am of trusting my own judgement. We would all go crazy if we didn't eventually make up our minds about something. And I guess like minds call to like minds and all forums develop a culture of sorts over time.Truly sorry to hear about your condition and I hope your body will keep healing.
I guess with cholesterol, as with a lot of other opinions/beliefs on this site, it depends on which tree we choose to "cherry pick" from and the orchard concerned. Reminds me of a quote from Malcolm Muggeridge, where the old ******* said:
"My opinion, my conviction gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind adopts it".
Its a great site, but methinks we often fall into the trap of being victims of dearly held beliefs (myself included), that will be held and held and..........
Well said Amen to that.All part of being human I guess - learning to discriminate and making our own choices on the sources we consider trustworthy. I'm more afraid of 'analysis paralysis' than I am of trusting my own judgement. We would all go crazy if we didn't eventually make up our minds about something. And I guess like minds call to like minds and all forums develop a culture of sorts over time.
If I turn out to be wrong about statins, I've told the GP he can come to my grave and shout "I told you so"
Well said Amen to that.