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Quite right. Doctors controlled by pharmaceutical companies as usual.
Quite right. Doctors controlled by pharmaceutical companies as usual.I already do all of the above, except it's not a monastery
I crochet my own yoghurt too...does this mean I'm safe ?
Has anyone else tried taking plant sterol tablets as an alternative to statins or Benecol type products ? I did, purely as an experiment to see if they did make any difference to cholesterol following the GP's insistence that mine was higher than it should be (but still within "normal" parameters ) and that I SHOULD continue with statins despite horrific side effects which they seem to believe were all in my mind anyway.For me, they did work, but having established that they did and showed the GP that my hippy ways worked, I stopped as I'm not at all convinced that my cholesterol needed adjusting in the first place.
Signy
Yes, I also take one kwai garlic tablet a day. Much more sociable than raw garlic.Reference the Benecol drinks and exercise.
There was a member on last year who reported they'd reduced their cholesterol levels by drinking a Benecol drink everyday and eating 3 cloves of garlic (raw). Garlic is well known for reducing harmful cholesterol levels (Google).
Exercise is well known for reducing cholesterol levels and I was only chatting about this last year when I had my diabetes review, again it's well documented on the web for anyone that wants to take a look.
Yes, I also take one kwai garlic tablet a day. Much more sociable than raw garlic.
We get through nearly two bulbs of garlic a week!!
I can beat that, on a Friday night we sometimes make a home-made curry and I make my own garlic butter to make garlic bread, I use two bulbs to make it nice and garlicky
I don't know if you have a Lidl near you but they sell garlic in a basket of about 12 bulbs, the bulbs are unusual as they peel just like an onion and don't have the individual cloves like normal garlic does, it makes it much easier for chopping or grating.
Signy? Do I use low fat or high fat yarn and can I get it off eBay? lol
I will look out for that next time I am in Lidl I love garlic and use it in practically everythingI can beat that, on a Friday night we sometimes make a home-made curry and I make my own garlic butter to make garlic bread, I use two bulbs to make it nice and garlicky
I don't know if you have a Lidl near you but they sell garlic in a basket of about 12 bulbs, the bulbs are unusual as they peel just like an onion and don't have the individual cloves like normal garlic does, it makes it much easier for chopping or grating.
High fat only, for sureHimalayan Mountain Blue Yak if you can get it - otherwise, use goat
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Have you tried knitting with waterproof KaYaK yarn ? Fantastic for walking in the rain!
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High fat only, for sureHimalayan Mountain Blue Yak if you can get it - otherwise, use goat
Signy
How strange. No cloves? Where does it come from?
Says on the label Origin China.
As we know garlic is part of the onion family and they really are just like little onions, much more convenient to use than peeling the skin on individual cloves. Lidl don't always stock them and have only just recently got them back in, they must be seasonal as they have been absent from the store for months.
Says on the label Origin China.
As we know garlic is part of the onion family and they really are just like little onions, much more convenient to use than peeling the skin on individual cloves. Lidl don't always stock them and have only just recently got them back in, they must be seasonal as they have been absent from the store for months.
Haven't I read on here somewhere that there is no direct relationship between fat in food and blood cholesterol?
Peacetrain stay on the cheese eggs and cream. Fat in your diet does not cause increased cholesterol in your blood. Losing body fat causes elevated triglycerides, so it's a symptom of a Good Thing.
The lipid ratios that matter are worsened by eating carbs, not eating fats. VLDL increases, which are the worst kind, are entirely caused by excessive carbs. VLDL is created when the body has too many carbs and has to try to convert carbs to fat for storage.
All the reading I've done over the past 2 years has convinced me of two things: (1) it's called the lipid "hypothesis" for a
reason - if they'd been able to prove it, it wouldn't be a hypothesis any more
and (2) higher cholesterol is protective for women as they age.
Although doctors won't ever tell you, low cholesterol is very risky - especially for cancer. If I have to choose between cancer and heart attack, I know which one I prefer.
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