Can anyone tell me which is best - low or zero fat, or full fat? I also have high cholesterol and keep reading conflicting things on the internet (even from reliable sources).
I dabbled in keto a few years ago and it was full fat all the way but with my cholesterol my diabetic nurse says low fat and cheese only at weekends?
How do I work this with both diabetes AND high cholesterol?
Hi
@ButterflyWine
oh, what a worry
Serum Cholesterol: 6.66mmol
Serum Triglycerides: 8.52mmol
Serum HDL: 0.87mmol
Serum Cholesterol / HDL ratio: 7.7
All i can add is the above posts all make good sense to me, but that's perhaps easy for me to say..
when i was DX'd as T2D, i became quite interested in my blood works, as you do.
in fact i then tracked back all my Blood works since 2010.
(had a concern back then that caused me to get checked out)
For me I was either high risk or at risk across the board in 2010, and no one mentioned it
Cholestrol was up, so began cutting back
Since DX I have learned so much about how we work inside
While a lot still to learn, I do now know how the ratios are important and to my mind the trigs dictate a lot of how the lipid panel looks.
and my trigs in
2010 jan was 6.7...
2018 at 2.7
at jan 2019 2.4..
and july 2019 1.2
8 years of a low cal diet dragged it down at first but then it dawdled
it was LCHF that booted it back into shape
and i didn't do fat bombs, I simply used butter over Marg, olive oils rather then vegetable oils,
ate a bit more cheese
And didn't trim any fat of the steaks/ meat I cooked
Normal rule was REAL FOOD.
Meat that liked like meat.
Veg that looked like veg
And all cooked by me
Herbs spices added to taste for flavour
No Saint, went off piste occasionally, but in General, it was the above.
So from 2010's horrific readings, by 2018 I had got most down to just risky ..oh joy
6 months of LCHF.
(And for me that was "healthier" fats,)
my panel was full of either GOOD or IDEAL
A difficult call for you to make .
I personally think processed food cut to the very minimum, and real food, got me back to a far healthier state in 6 months with my bloods then 8 years of low cal low fat ever dud.
No expert, just offering my personal experience, in the hope that may help.
Best of luck moving forward.