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Cholesterol Lowering Food Ideas?

A while ago I posted http://paleohacks.com/questions/158909/something-is-wrong-lipids Since then, I've started getting cholesterol deposits on the outside of my eyes, dermatologist …
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After 2 years of paleo, here are my cholesterol results…

Here is an image of my results, or just look below: Total Cholesterol 240 LCL 152 HDL 80 Triglycerides 40 It's 112 on the Iranian formula, but I'm not really sure of the sig …
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Anybody Diagnoise with PCOS Doing Crossfit and Prescribed Metformin?

I am a 36 year old female, 5'3" and 155 lbs who started Crossfit and Paleo 1.5 years ago. I do have my occasional cheats with Paleo and laziness with Crossfit, but I have not loss …
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Does the Paleosphere Have Its Own Flawed Diet-Heart Hypothesis?

Back in March of 2011, I got a lipid panel run after eating a diet loaded with butter and cream and at or less than 100g of carbs per day for 6 months or so. Pretty standard "paleo …
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Is high cholesterol really as bad as “they” say?

Last year and most recent blood work shows my total cholesterol as 209 (9 pts above "normal" level). Should I be concerned? I don't know how this could be because I eat strict pale …
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Has the Paleo community leaned too heavily into its own dogma?

There's a tendency in the Paleo community to treat unlimited saturated fat consumption as not only benign, but healthful. While there are some of us that can consume an avalanche …
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Poor Cholesterol Results After 1 Year of Paleo

I just had my first physical since going Paleo about a year ago. I've altered my diet significantly over the past year, mostly by adding fat in the form of things like grass-fed b …
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coconut milk and cholesterol

I am very new to the Paleo diet (only about two weeks) and wanted to know if coconut milk really does help you lose fat?!? I thought it was high in cholesterol and increases your L …
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Can someone please help me understand cholesterol numbers!!

I am so confused about cholesterol numbers!! I just got a call today from my doctor's office with lab results that really shocked me. I expected a raise in Cholesterol numbers afte …
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Very high LDL cholesterol but good ratios overall?

I read through lots of lipid and VAP test questions here, but this seems to be a new one. Here are my VAP results: LDL 235 HDL 75 (>60 is optimal) TTL 331 (TTL:HDL = 4.4 where …
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High cholesterol, low bilirubin

I wanted to ask this question later, after I get my test results back, but I am too nervous and I would like somebody to calm me down :) I called the nurse and she said some blood …
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Confused about ApoB Units

Can anyone tell me how to convert/interpret Apo B test results. My test result was 2.0, but it doesn't say what the units are. I've been searching the web and found a conversion …
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Can’t convince my mom eating sat fats are good

My mom is a firm believer in the lipid hypothesis and abhors anything with the word fat in it. I went paleo about 2-3 months ago after being low carb and I got great results. With …
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LDL and cholesterol again

I'm totally new here, just discovered this site today... Am kind of worried because I started eating LCHF in August, after some 30 years of high carb (wholegrains and mainly vegeta …
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Shocking Cholesterol results – Go back on Statin?

OK, I’m pretty sure I have the record for high numbers! TC - 480, HDL - 71, LDL - 390, Trigs - 52, Apo-B - 2.0, Apo-A - 1.67 Kinda freaking out! I’m 48, 5’8” 185lb, I’ve been Pa …

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