High Cholesterol - Is It Ok To Eat This....

[mandimoo]

I'm reeling somewhat, by the news that, at 42 years of age my cholesterol levels is a whopping 6.8.

Obviously I will be doing some research into how to help myself, but I need an answer on tonight dinner.....

I usually wrap skinless chicken breast in foil and bung in something for flavour.... Olives, capers, sundried tomato, sliced lemon, herbs (not all at once!) I don't add any oil (except for a little that may come off the sundried toms) and cook in the oven.

When it's done, I serve with cous Cous & steamed veg and pour the juices from the chicken over the cous Cous and back over the chicken. The cous cous soaks it all up and the chicken is lovely and moist.

Is it it going to be bad to use the juices in this way from now on?

[Sqad]

\\\\Is it it going to be bad to use the juices in this way from now on\\


It sounds absolutely delicious and no carry on.
Don't become "obsessed" with your cholesterol readings.

Other factors are more important.

[mandimoo]

Thanks for the Reassuring words. I have to admit I'm a little freaked out by this. I also have sticky blood (apls), am overweight and carry all my weight around the middle AND love a couple of glasses of wine (regularly). I know something has to give. I have a 17 month old daughter and want to be around as long as possible.

[Sqad]

\\\\I also have sticky blood (apls),\\\
What is that all about?

Just cut down on the AMOUNT of food that you eat, try and gets some exercise....e.g swimming and have just one glass of wine.

If you have a family history of strokes, heart attacks or high blood pressure, then see you GP as he may well start you on statins. If not.......don't worry.

[Daffy6543]

I think she means Sticky Blood Syndrome (APS) sqad.
http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/diseases/facts/antiphospholipid.htm

[Sqad]

Thanks daffy....I have never heard of it.

[Old_Geezer]

Try not to swop death from cholesterol overdose for death from fear of living a decent lifestyle. We all have to go sometime, someway. One dinner, or 1000 of them isn't going to tip the balance.


I don't see any juice issue in your recipe anyway. Seems ultra healthy to me.

[Daffy6543]

I only know of it because I have a niece with it.

[dannyk13]

Following a TIA my cholesterol was measured at 6.5 so I decided to try and bring it down by diet avoiding foods that were alleged to be cholesterol causing (i.e fats etc). After a month my cholesterol level was down to 4.5 but a month later was up to 5.5. and I am now on statins.Incidently my G.P advised me that the body naturally supplies a certain amount of cholesterol so i t would be difficult to reduce it by diet alone.

[seadogg]

The practice nurse gave me statins as they could give a 5% better chance of living 10 more years (from 78). Never felt more "rough" in my life so been dodging them . With B.P. spot on and O.K. chloresterol what's the point Sqad?

Been eating like you for years mandimoo. Good luck.

[boxtops]

Mandimoo, that's not a hideous reading - mine was 7.4, even on statins, before I started to really get a grip on my diet, and stopped eating butter and cake in the quantity I used to, and I eat a lot more fruit and vegetables. I now go for low fat options for yogurt and fat etc., but I still enjoy my food and still have treats - I;ve just eaten a Bournville bar :-)

The last reading was 5.4 and I've lost a stone in weight, so it does work.

Your chicken dish sounds delicious, I wouldn't change that at all!

Re the statins, my initial experience was dreadful, muscle aches, the lot, but I'm now on Fluvastatin, with absolutely no adverse effects.

Good luck with it - but it's by now means the end of the world, it's manageable. Let us know how you get on!

[jno]

we may all have to go sometime, OG, but when you have a 17-month-old child it's not going to be a good time for a while yet.

You may find you get rather more exercise as your daughter gets older and you have to run around after her more (voice of experience here).

http://heartuk.org.uk/cholesterol-and-diet/low-cholesterol-diets-and-foods

[WELSHYORKIE]

With a history of FH in the family, I was checked and my level was well into double figures. Put on Atorvastatin 40mg and had to change diet. Currently the figure hovers around 5.5. Now that summer is here and salads replace hot meals, the levels. Will drop below 5.

[Old_Geezer]

Won't be a good time if you go from fear either jno.

[muddlebrain]

I have greatly decreased my level by eating a bowl of porridge oats each morning

[grasscarp]

muddle I have done that in the past too. I actually really like porridge. My cholesterol reading was 9.9. I brought it down a bit and have not had a reading taken for ages. In June I have a full medical courtesy of work and will find out the truth. As my husband suffered really bad side effects of statins doctor told him to stop taking them and he did. Anyone out there read The Great Cholesterol Con? If you havent here is a precis

Statins are the so-called wonder drugs widely prescribed to lower blood cholesterol levels and claim to offer unparalleled protection against heart disease.

Believed to be completely safe and capable of preventing a whole series of other conditions, they are the most profitable drug in the history of medicine.

In this groundbreaking book, GP Malcolm Kendrick exposes the truth behind the hype, revealing: high cholesterol levels don’t cause heart disease; a high-fat diet – saturated or otherwise – does not affect blood cholesterol levels; and, the protection provided by statins is so small as to be not worth bothering about for most men and all women.

Statins have many more side affects than has been admitted and their advocates should be treated with scepticism due to their links with the drugs’ manufacturers. Kendrick lambastes a powerful pharmaceutical industry and unquestioning medical profession, who, he claims, perpetuate the madcap concepts of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ cholesterol and cholesterol levels to convince millions of people to spend billions of pounds on statins, thus creating an atmosphere of stress and anxiety – the real cause of fatal heart disease.With clarity and wit,

[Sqad]

grasscarp......Kendrick's ideas do not represent the thoughts of the majority of doctors.......including, particularly, cardiologists.

Kendrick may be right..........

[grasscarp]

I bow to your knowledge Sqad. as ever.

[Sqad]

grasscarp.......LOL.....lower....lower.

[Sqad]

P.S I have a certain empathy with some of his assertions.

[grasscarp]

lower .... as long as you dont add, "and while you're down there"