Terri, I share your low cholesterol problem and have been fighting it for years. Appreciate your comments. suzy
In a message dated 8/26/01 7:29:55 AM Central Daylight Time, annho...@aol.com writes: > BTW, low cholesterol is more of a problem than high cholesterol, as > reported again in the latest Lancet. Low cholesterol is predictive of an > increase > in the likelihood of cancer, stroke and death. High cholesterol levels have > no correlation to heart disease and cholesterol levels are barely > influenced > by food intake, the body manufacturing by far the greatest proportion found > serum itself. >> > > Ivan, > I find this very interesting. I had my cholesterol tested as I had been a > vegetarian for a number of years. The reading came back at 135. I was the > envy of my friends and had to show them the report as they almost didn't > believe me. I had heard from other veg. that low cholesterol went along > with > that diet. Now I'm not feeling so lucky... > Not too long after that test I went back to eating meat as I couldn't shake > being anemic... per my Dr's suggestion after all else failed. The change > worked and I remain just above the anemia borderline. I just had > cholesteral > run again a few weeks ago, it came back as 215 with the the big letter "H" > next to it. I can't seem to win. > Terri > >
