<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> I received many many responses to my query as to an association between high cholesterol and celiac disease. They were divided in reporting the presence of cholesterol. Many people had low cholesterol as a result of fatty stools, and not being able to absorb fats. More responded that they had high cholesterol, and did not seem to be able to get it down with conventional methods such as diet. Many repsonded that although they had low cholesterol diet, that it did not effect the blood cholesterol levels, and that they were still high. Some reported, as I was told by my doctor, that the liver makes cholesterol, and in some people, the liver continued to make high amounts and that diet would not help. I was once on the Cambridge diet for 18 months. In that time I ate nothing, only drank 3 glasses of liquid diet for a sum total of 330 calories a day. There was no fat in the mix. It is a wonder that I am alive (but since there was no gluten in the drink I felt great.) My cholesterol levels stayed high and I lost less than a pound a week for the first year, and then I stopped losing weight. This would confirm to me that the liver was still making it. I received one response with a solution. Quote: I believe my homeopath would tell you that if your cholesterol is out, the first place to start looking is your liver, since this is the place where it is regulated. My friend had high cholesterol, but after dietary and detox intervention by my homeopath (who is also a MD), she no longer has a problem and is healthier and more energetic. Would be worth checking out, rather than waiting around to have a heart attack :)End I wonder if those of us with high cholesterol and overweight have a body that interprets nutrition deprivation such as in CD as a case of starvation, and we are in starvation mode, conserving fat and nutrition. Therefore the liver is making cholesterol as a measure to maintain life. I wonder if there is a medical or research person who has ever checked this out. From what I know, overweight celiacs are a new discovery - and not very well known about by the medical profession - and I doubt if much is known about the reason some people gain and other lose and most stay the same. Just Wondering. Thank you all for your great feedback. Together maybe we can keep asking questions, and some great researcher will win the Nobel Prize by answering it. Carol in NJ