LCHF diet and cholesterol

francesk

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182

Type of diabetes

Type 2

• Jan 10, 2018

• #1

Is there not a danger of raising one's cholesterol on LCHF diet? I was thinking about all the cream, butter, Greek yoghurt etc. I'm T2 on insulin, and have been taking ramipril foe some time, my cholesterol has always been around 3.4. Or is my thinking very muddled?

 

Resurgam

Master

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10,137

Location

Dorset, on the south coast of England

Type of diabetes

Treatment type

Diet only

• Jan 10, 2018

• #2

I think that the reasoning behind lowering cholesterol is muddled - it is like realizing that whenever there is a car crash there is an ambulance coming to the scene - so ban ambulances, no more accidents. Right?

 

miahara

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1,019

Location

Tayside

Type of diabetes

Type 3c

Treatment type

Insulin

• Jan 10, 2018

• #3

Hi @francesk, you total cholesterol looks pretty good but the ratios of Total Cholesterol/HDL and HDL/LDL and triglycerides/HDL are probably more important.
Here's a handy calculator -
http://www.hughcalc.org/chol-si.php

 

francesk

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182

Type of diabetes

Type 2

• Jan 10, 2018

• #4

Thanks for your answers, unfortunately I don't appear to have any test results for the HDL/LDL or triglycerides, but I'll ask if I can get them done. All my levels (bg's, bp's etc) are all skewed at present due to a course of steroids so I imagine that it's going to take a few months to get back to normal. I think that I'll try and use more olive oil and rapeseed oil for cooking now.

 

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L1ncslass

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56

Type of diabetes

Type 2

• Jan 10, 2018

• #5

Research Dr Malcolm Kendrick and his views on the cholesterol con https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=malcolm+kendrick+cholesterol

 

francesk

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182

Type of diabetes

Type 2

• Jan 10, 2018

• #6

Very interesting videos, thank you for the link.