Kim Kline wrote:

 > Doctors have also wanted me to go on
 >birth control pills which I have refused as my sister had a stroke when whe
 >took the pill and she was only in her 20's.

But was she on a paleo diet, or a high carb, low fat one? Did she do little
exercise? In this article it says that higher HDL lowers stroke risk.
People on high carb, low fat diets tend to have low HDLs. And exercise
raises HDL.

http://cmbi.bjmu.edu.cn/news/0106/20.htm

(Really my question is what was her HDL back then. But I doubt you'd know
that.)

Don.