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Help with low carb foods.

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bronte

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I have been recently diagnosed T2 (diet only) and am Low carbing and my levels seem to be reducing. I am not sure if I am eating the right sort of food though particularly cheese and yoghurt.

My cholesterol is 5.7 and the nurse says this needs to reduce, so obviously the high fat cheese yoghurt is a worry to me.

Should I have low fat yoghurts or full fat? is goats cheese, hard cheese, feta okay? I know it is a silly question but I like the mozzarella balls for snacks. Low fat or full fat? and how many do I eat for a snack? The whole bag?

Many thanks
 
Bronte, welcome to the forum. It is a little scary tackling the cholesterol levels whilst eating fat. I was lucky in that my cholesterol has always been ok, but actually eating more fat (as in MUCH more fat) has improved those numbers even further! I eat fat to the level that would have most dietitians doing fits but I've lost over 4st since November, improved my BG readings to non diabetic levels, reversed a fatty liver condition (which I was told I'd need to reduce fat intake completely to do and then it would take months to years - mine normalized in 2 months!)

There are plenty of other on here who have had bigger cholesterol numbers than me, hopefully they can reassure you more!

Dave
 
BRonte
dietary fat doesn't cause high cholesterol. Cholesterol is made in the liver from CARBS. AND high HDL cholesterol is good for you. Total cholesterol numbers are useless. You needd high DL cholesterol, Low LDL cholesterol and low triglycerides.
 
Hi Bronte,

It's worth pointing out a few things about cholesterol, particularly as far as women are concerned.

The Framingham Study (the definitive cholesterol / diet study) made a direct association between lowering cholesterol and an increased risk of death from both coronary disease and from all causes.

persistence of low cholesterol concentration actually increases the risk of death
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The Lancet, August 2001

Risk of non-cancer, non-cardiovascular death for women falls as cholesterol levels rise.

Full fat everything, everytime (won't raise your cholesterol anyway!)

fergus

fergus
 
Fat is only bad if you are also eating excessive carbs.

Many "low fat" foods have the fats replaced by starch or sugar - cheap carbs to replace the expensive fats, then they are marked up in price.
 
To follow on from what Trink has written
Look at tthe carb content of Low fat yogurts. The sugar mainains the structure of the stuff. there's so much in there. And people innocently feed this stuff to their young children in the mistaken belief that they are "healthy". A chocolate biscuit would be better :lol:
 
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