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Statins: friend or foe?

December 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Diet

Some time ago I spent a week swotting up about cholesterol for a family member, which also resulted in a post about what I had learned about changing your diet to reduce your “bad” cholesterol levels (LDL) and increase your “good” cholesterol levels (HDL). For now, let’s put aside the issue of whether it is [...]

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Top 10 Tips on Reducing and Controlling Blood Cholesterol

September 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Diet

Following on from all that technical research yesterday, here are my top ten tips on reducing and controlling your blood cholesterol levels. The final top ten are loosely based on the top ten tips produced by Ryan Andrews.  However, I have changed a few since I have strong views on the potential gut problems that [...]

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Lessons learned this week: the Cholesterol Story

September 28th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Diet

I’ve learned a lot this week.  So much so, that I’m going to have to split this into 2 posts to avoid you getting reader’s-fatigue. Last Monday I was asked for help by a member of my family.  Her husband had just been told by his doctor that he had extremely high cholesterol and that [...]

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