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<blockquote data-quote="Grateful" data-source="post: 2204184" data-attributes="member: 438800"><p>Thank you everyone for your advice. I am still researching this. I am willing to have a go at lowering my cholesterol (or improving the ratio) through diet and lifestyle adjustments, although I must admit that the dietary advice seems much more nebulous (and confusing) than the straightforward causation, for T2 diabetes, between a low-carb diet and a lowered HbA1c.</p><p></p><p>This gives me a chance to improve my health more generally, mainly by (a) drinking less alcohol and (b) taking more exercise. Neither of these things is likely to have much impact on serum cholesterol numbers, however. One problem is that I am already following quite a lot of the cholesterol-lowering diet, such as, for example, eating oily fish regularly.</p><p></p><p>I will start off by, for example, adding tuna (instead of chicken) to the green salads that I usually have for lunch. I do eat a lot of meat (much more than before I went on the low-carb diet). It sounds like reducing meat intake, particularly fats, and increasing vegetable intake will help, although I do already eat a lot of vegetables. Where I will get my energy from, after reducing the fat, is less clear!</p><p></p><p>I am not at all convinced that high-ish cholesterol <em>per se</em> is necessarily a big deal and if I cannot reduce the number naturally with diet or lifestyle changes I will probably refuse the statins anyway, when my next clinical assessment comes up three months from now. </p><p></p><p>I am particularly concerned that, had I not three years ago been diagnosed with T2 diabetes, it is unlikely that doctors and nurses would be prescribing me statins. Since my T2 is completely under control, I don't feel the need to start taking a drug that (presumably) would be part of my daily regimen for the rest of my life.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grateful, post: 2204184, member: 438800"] Thank you everyone for your advice. I am still researching this. I am willing to have a go at lowering my cholesterol (or improving the ratio) through diet and lifestyle adjustments, although I must admit that the dietary advice seems much more nebulous (and confusing) than the straightforward causation, for T2 diabetes, between a low-carb diet and a lowered HbA1c. This gives me a chance to improve my health more generally, mainly by (a) drinking less alcohol and (b) taking more exercise. Neither of these things is likely to have much impact on serum cholesterol numbers, however. One problem is that I am already following quite a lot of the cholesterol-lowering diet, such as, for example, eating oily fish regularly. I will start off by, for example, adding tuna (instead of chicken) to the green salads that I usually have for lunch. I do eat a lot of meat (much more than before I went on the low-carb diet). It sounds like reducing meat intake, particularly fats, and increasing vegetable intake will help, although I do already eat a lot of vegetables. Where I will get my energy from, after reducing the fat, is less clear! I am not at all convinced that high-ish cholesterol [I]per se[/I] is necessarily a big deal and if I cannot reduce the number naturally with diet or lifestyle changes I will probably refuse the statins anyway, when my next clinical assessment comes up three months from now. I am particularly concerned that, had I not three years ago been diagnosed with T2 diabetes, it is unlikely that doctors and nurses would be prescribing me statins. Since my T2 is completely under control, I don't feel the need to start taking a drug that (presumably) would be part of my daily regimen for the rest of my life. [/QUOTE]
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