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Paula H. wrote:
>Debby,
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>I am not as well versed in the science as Todd is, but I am not sure that
>cholesterol does matter with heart disease.
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>Have you read The Cholesterol Myths by Dr. Uffe Ravnskov? Have you read the
>Eades? They have a graph of deaths from all causes plotted against total
>cholesterol levels. IIRC, deaths from all causes are lowest in the 160 -
>220 cholesterol range. Too low a level of cholesterol causes the death rate
>to rise.
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>Everyone's experience is different. For me, after I had eaten low carb for
>awhile my cholesterol dropped from 199-201 to 165. My HDL is 63 and my HDL
>is 94, triglycerides are 42. I do not restrict sat fat consumption. I eat
>all the fat on my meats - visible and otherwise.
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I've read Ravnskov and the Eades. In fact, it's from the Eades that I
first learned about the small-dense LDL theory. Ravnskov concedes that
there is a weak correlation between cholesterol and heart disease in
certain groups--notably men between 40 and 60, if I remember. He
argues, convincingly, that the correlation is too weak to indicate that
cholesterol is *causing* heart disease. In my own case, no amount of
paleo dieting has ever brought my cholesterol below 260, and when I
first started, it shot up to 320. On a low sat-fat Zone diet, it went
down to about 220. I haven't had it tested in a few years, so I don't
know what it might be right now.
Todd Moody
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