Hi all,

Melisa and I recently got some blood work done--primarily to see if we were
"getting away" with cooking (grilled meat, steamed veggies) after several
years of eating only raw foods. In the back of my mind I thought that I
could be one of the folks who end up with high cholesteral if I ate cooked
animal foods. And if so I was gonna return to raw since it had previously
proven itself pretty well with me.

Anyway, Melisa's overall cholesteral was flagged as high since it was over
200, though I thought her ratios were nice. (Isn't there something about a
ratio including trigs?) Further, she had an overall cholesteral of 339 a
couple weeks before giving birth some ten months ago (she is still
breastfeeding heavily now) so I guess she is definately going in the right
direction. Still she isn't too terribly "proud" of having high cholesteral,
since it was below 150 in the previous years.

Since there are a few folks on this list who seem to understand how lipid
stats should be interpeted I thought I would share them (and maybe you can
help me convince Melisa to forget about worrying over her total cholesteral
level). Any ideas?

Our doctor was convinced that avocados and coconuts had cholesteral so he
wasn't much of a source of believable interpetation. ;)

Melisa:         11/98   1995    1993    1991

Blood Pressure: 90/60   100/60  100/70  110/80
Cholesteral:    216     186     170     153   (339 in 1/98)
Triglyceride:   47      49      40      NA
HDL:            75      67      NA      NA
LDL:            132     112*    NA      NA
CHOL/HDL:       2.88    2.78    NA      NA
LDL/HDL:        1.8     1.67*   NA      NA

Myself:

Blood Pressure: 100/64  100/60  100/70  110/70
Cholesteral:    181     175     167     182
Triglyceride:   34      70      99      NA
HDL:            56      63      NA      NA
LDL:            118     104*    NA      NA
CHOL/HDL:       3.23    2.7     NA      NA
LDL/HDL:        2.1     1.65*   NA      NA

*estimated LDL (from CHOL - HDL -about 5%)
I don't know if that is a "legal" calculation. :/

The 91, 93, and 95 were all raw years with a high % of fruit. 11/98 is (for
me) a couple pounds of cooked rare fatty meat/day, often several oz of raw
marrow, some fruit, some salad). Melisa eats more fruit, about a pound of
cooked meat/day, some salad, and lots of steamed veggies, including sweet
potato).

Any riviting analysis of this info?

Cheers,
Kirt



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