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...There are 32 people ahead of you," the screen says. Pretty realistic, I think. Next time I'll bring a magazine. Ten minutes later, I'm in a one-on-one chat with Amdoc4. I ask him one of my standard test questions: "Why don't my HDL and LDL numbers add up to my total cholesterol number?" And he answers, correctly, that there are other factors like VLDL...
Healthy margarine? U.S. scientists confirmed last week that a margarine called Benecol, sold in Finland, reduces cholesterol. It's formulated with natural cholesterol-lowering compounds known as plant sterols. Just 1 1/2 tsp. a day lowers total count 9% and bad LDL cholesterol 14%. Expect the spread here by early...
...healthy diet may not be enough to ward off heart disease. In a study of those at risk, LDL, or "bad," cholesterol levels fell 13% in men and 9% in women who combined a low-fat diet with exercise. But for those who only changed their diet, LDLs fell by only half of those percentages...
Most worrisome, my LDL level (the so-called bad cholesterol, but actually low-density lipoprotein, which helps maintain cholesterol in the blood) is high at 148 compared with my "good" HDL (high-density lipoprotein, which helps clear cholesterol), which is 54. Moore assures me I can lower my cholesterol without medication and asks about my diet. While I generally stay away from red meat and eat mostly fish, chicken, vegetables and salads, I confess a weakness for cheese, potato chips and butter on all sorts of things. Moore wonders if I am ready to "commit"--as she says--to eliminating...
...asking their doctors about lovastatin are those who resemble the 6,605 people in the study. The men ranged in age from 45 to 73; the women, 55 to 78 and postmenopausal. Those suffering from obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure were excluded. Beyond that, only a few had LDL, or "bad" cholesterol, levels above 190, until now considered the trigger point for prescribing anticholesterol drugs...