What's your diet look like?
Do you have a glucometer at home? I'd get one, they're cheap.
Waist to hip ratio?
Got some blood work done, and other than reading online that my results are 'bad,' I don't know how to interpret the data. But some of you meatheads are awfully smart, so here's my numbers.
Blood Pressure--good (130/80 or something close)
Resting Pulse--65
BAD BELOW
Cholesterol 266
HDL 42
LDL 156
Trigylcerides 337
Non HDL 224
Random Blood Sugar 83
Blood pressure is from memory but it was good.
Am I dying? Do I need to give up cigars and whole milk, stop eating double Philly Cheesesteaks? This is horseshit.
What's your diet look like?
Do you have a glucometer at home? I'd get one, they're cheap.
Waist to hip ratio?
Refer to this:
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/forum...ghlight=primer
And get on primal/paleo diet ASAP.
I had good luck with cutting out the whole milk and consuming a lot of fish oil. This presumes you're currently drinking a lot of whole milk and not consuming a lot of fish oil. My doctor recommended cardio and weight loss, but I did not do either. Desperate times, however, may call for desperate measures. He also recommended less red meat, and I believe I switched out beef for pork more often.
If you add the fish oil I see no need to remove milk or red meat.
Get the book "The 8 Week Cholesterol Cure".
Maybe. I'm just saying what I did over the last three months to get my cholesterol down. I was also at the point where I didn't need that much milk anymore, so it was natural to cut back. I'm no scientist and I'm no nutritionist, follow my example at your own peril, I really did not do much research except into fish oil - fish oil is great for you for 20,000 reasons, take more of it than you think is reasonable.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with red meat in terms of cholesterol. It's the carbs and inflammation that you have to watch.
I thought so, too, but, just in case, I switched to pork. I didn't eat much sugar or bread, either.