Cholesterol Reduction

Question: Where can I find chicken egg cholesterol reduction articles? Where can I find those types of articles? I'm planning on reducing the cholesterol content of egg yolk in chicken eggs. It's covers a whole subject in school. -_-

Answer: "[It] covers a whole subject in school." You should find a better school. w

Question: What are alternative to cholesterol reduction drugs?

Answer: Homeopathic Treatment for Curing High Cholesterol Levels: - 1.PHYTOLACCA 30 2.PHOSPHORUS 30 3.CHOLESTERINUM 30 Three Drops Each in a sip of water half hour before meals thrice a day always take them on an empty stomach. And avoid Chocolates Coffee Mints and Red Meat while you are taking any Homeopathic remedy. Take care and God Bless!

Question: Are You Aware Statins Do NOT Lower CHD Mortality By Cholesterol Reduction? Statins work REGARDLESS of resultant LDL level. Statins work via ANTI INFLAMMATORY ANTI SPASM ANTI CLOTTING ANTI OXIDANT ARTERY DILATING IMPROVING NITIRC OXIDE LEVELS and has NOTHING TO DO with cholesterol reduction RESEARCHERS IN OCT 2006 ADMITTED 'THERE IS NO SIGNIFICANT EVIDENCE LDL REDUCTION EXPLAINS THESE BENEFICIAL EFFECTS" http://www.lowcarbmuscle.com/forums/showthread.php?t=162 ARE YOU AWARE OF THIS?

Answer: You still seem to think that statins are the only drug on the market that lowers LDL. They aren't. Zetia (Ezetimibe) is also available. Zetia inhibits absorption of cholesterol at the brush border of the small intestine via the sterol transporter. This leads to a decreased delivery of cholesterol to the liver, reduction of hepatic cholesterol stores and an increased clearance of cholesterol from the blood; decreases total C, LDL-cholesterol (LDL-C), ApoB, and triglycerides (TG) while increasing HDL-cholesterol (HDL-C). Zetia has no pleotropic effects, but still lowers cholesterol levels and CHD mortality. I really wish you would stop stating your opinions as though they are facts. They are contradictory to medical science and potentially harmful to the community. P.S. Please stop cursing at me.

Question: Are the cholesterol skeptics correct that no clinical trial has ever shown that LDL reduction prevents CAD or? extends longevity? STOP DELETING THIS QUESTION !!!!!!!! They are always deleting this question. Doing so only PROVES that they have something to hide and do not want the public to know there are many respected scientists who challenge the validity of the lipid hypothesis of CAD.

Answer: Try going to pubmed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ and searching "CHD, statins" I got over 800 results. Here are some links to the abstracts of just a couple that have clear evidence for lipid lowering drugs http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19232755?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&ordinalpos=31 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19067719?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&ordinalpos=50 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19204217?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&ordinalpos=36 "CHD, LDL" gives almost 2000 results. Here are a couple http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19699477?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&ordinalpos=17 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19272238?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&ordinalpos=58 Feel free to go to a reputable database such as the Cochrane database or pubmed yourself and do your own search. In future, these are good places to start when looking for scientific answers rather then google or hearsay.

Question: Speed of cholesterol reduction? I have had my cholesterol checked several times and it has been high, despite my doctor putting me on Lipitor. I have completely revamped my diet to weed out cholesterol (tho it is as expensive as heck!!!!). I've been adhering very strictly to the diet for a while now. However, I have a bad leg, which is much of the reason that my cholesterol went up in the first place, due to the fact i can't go walking, running, play sports, etc like I could a few years ago (and yes, because of diet too). I was wondering, taking Lipitor with a good diet but with limited exercise, how long will it likely take for the cholesterol level to drop? I can't find any sort of a time frame anywhere on the internet. Most sites you go to spend all their time trying to scare the hell out of you and make you think that you're gonna drop dead by tomorrow if you don't change your eating habits immediately. Can anyone answer this? Thanks!

Answer: You may want to talk to your doctor about taking the rhyming commercial cholesterol lowering drug. I believe its Zitorin. It attacks both types of cholesterol. The cholesterol we take in and the cholesterol our body makes. Talk with the doctor for more information. Hope this gets you on the right track. God Bless and Peace out.............

Question: REDUCTION OF CHOLESTEROL LEVELS? What are the remedies available for reducing triglycerides in alternative medicine ?

Answer: Hi Satyam, As a remedy to control cholesterol, there are certain foods you should avoid and certain foods you should eat. Here is an article explaining thoee foods: http://www.lifemojo.com/lifestyle/controlling-your-cholesterol-levels-72898

Question: "Nature Made", "Cholest-Off", Up to "24% On Average" Reduction In Cholesterol, is There a Problem With this? SAMI, does Saying "Up to" and "On Average", In an Ad, Cause you Any Problem? Apparently, gandalf, SAMI (Like the Advertiser), has No Problem With Pulling Figures Out of their A$$. Thanks K, On their Site, the Studies Aren't Mentioned. I don't Remember a Great Deal From my Prior Use of Statistics, but their Statement, Raised a Red Flag. I did a Medline Search On "Reducol" and "Phytrol" (2004 On), and Found Nothing. K, About Journals, I Call Them "Vanity Journals". K, I had In Mind Non Reputable Journals, In particular Journals That Only Exist So a Company or person Can Say they Are Published, Not Typically Peer-Reviewed. K, I don't Know What Medline does, I Should, I Would Hope they Are All Reputable Peer-Reviewed Journals, I don't Think Having Scam-Artists or Con-Artists Review your "Study", Makes it Legitimate.

Answer: A statement like this leads me to believe that no study was performed. Let me explain: "Up to" implies that IF a study was done, the extreme or outlying case has been cited from merely a range of outcome scores....which, means nothing. Outliers and extreme scores skew a distribution which can seriously affect the assumptions involved in using particular analyses but also the validity and reliablity of results. Researchers typically do not retain them in analyses unless they can be shown to have not occurred by various errors and do in fact represent the population sampled. And, this is very rarely the case. Statistical analyses require normal distributions. So, efforts to normalize the data (e.g., a log transformation) would have to be performed if the cases were retained...Regardless, statistical significance is not based on a "range" of scores. Ranges are descriptive characteristics of a sample. If there is no significance, then there is no "effect" of treatment. Using "average" though in the same sentence leads me to believe that no study was even performed. See, in statistical analyses, percentages can be calculated as precise figures within a 95% confidence interval. For example, in regression, Eta squared provides the precentage of variance explained by particular independent variables. "Up to a percentage of a given average" does not make a lick of sense. It is obviously crap. Fancy, wanna-be statistical terms have been used erroneously to trick people into believing there is some scientific basis to the claims. But, hey, in today's world, knowledge, evidence, and even logic doesn't sell products. Sex, manipulation, subliminal messaging, anecdotes, the prospect of making money, and living up to unattainable, unrealistic societal standards does. If the efficacy of any product was empirically based, why wouldn't the advertisers or manufacturers cite the published journal? I think these advertisers could have done a better job of faking. At the very least had some woman with big breasts uttering the statement. HA! I have no idea how most ads remain when they are clearly scams. PS. I think something is wrong with your regular email. I emailed you back and got a failure message (i.e., "service not available"). So, tried sending again, but also opted to write you using the Y!A "mdgreg" link. EDIT: Well, then they're full of crap like many, many other advertisers. IF such study existed, it would be boasted about, would it not? Could give them the benefit of the doubt and say well: "maybe the stats were erroneously reported". That *does* happen all the time, which is a huge pete peeve of mine. But, no cited study=bullsh*t in my mind. And, yes definitely a red flag. Even if you discounted all the mombo jombo I mentioned, the statement isn't even logical: "Up to a percentage on average". So scores (or mostly likely *a* score) in a range on average. Whaaaa? EDIT 2: Interesting, yet not at all surprised. I've heard through ads that some claim to be performing "their own", "private", or "within company" experiments. Have you heard this? I think I remember the company "Vichy" making these claims. I think I remember this from a Vichy ad. I suspect though that these "experiments" would have just as much reliability and validity as no study at all. If "real" MD's, PhD's or statisticians were hired to conduct the research, then again, why aren't the findings published or the details (like, the methodology and statistics) at least available on the website? EDIT 3: Why "Vanity Journals"? Hmm, interesting...I can think of many reasons for the nick name. Are you referring to the "publish or perish" mentality of stuffy profs, how one journal will claim to be different (if not better) than another...even though it accepts the same types of works, how "reputation" is overemphasized and attributed meaning way beyond reality, or do you refer to how stuffed shirts use publications to attribute meaning to their lives, to bolster their self-esteem, and feel "worthy" within their own brains? HA-HA....Or, did you mean something different altogether? EDIT 4: Ahhh, I knew there would be a sound explanation. Obviously, there is a difference between peer-reviewed and non-peer reviewed. I think there is already too much disconnect between and within areas of knowledge, but also between empirical work and public knowledge. Non-peer reviewed sources can contribute to that..in the minds of some. In my mind an obvious difference though. "Magazines" versus journals. I'm not even sure non-peer reviewed sources can be located using Medline, Psyclit, or other scholarly search engines... Are you making a distinction beyond peer-reviewed versus non-peer reviewed journals? Or, do you mean something else by non-peer reviewed? I consider non-peer reviewed "journals" to be magazines, like articles in "Popular Science" maybe...articles that are not empirical or theoretical studies/clinical trials, and not reviewed by an editorial board of expert scholars etc. EDIT 5: Yeah, you're right. I don't think I've ever read an article though from something claiming to be an actual scholarly journal. Magazine articles, well of course. But, not something from a source claiming to be an actual journal without an expert review board, where articles are not subjected to regulated review and standards etc. I would like to though. I would like to read the article but also the "comments" from "editors"/aka, scam artists....just to learn something....or, uhhh, perhaps to just develop some new scorn for the workings of the world. LOL!...Maybe I'm not thinking hard enough or correctly. I can't believe I haven't come across this type of thing...

Question: What's the story on fat-free foods that contain cholesterol? We're trying to eat a mostly fat-free diet (and have had a spectacular reduction total serum cholesterol) but have noted nutrition labels showing zero fat but small amounts of cholesterol (e.g., in skim milk and fat-free yogurt). What is the relationship between those small amounts of dietary cholesterol and coronary artery disease? Thanks.

Answer: Be aware that 80% of your cholesterol is manufactured by your body regardless of what you eat and you should focus on good (HDL).vs. bad (LDL cholesterol. Bad cholesterol comes from meat ,animal products and saturated & hydrogenated oils, The good cholesterol is from Olive, fish and seed/nut oils (except for Palm and Coconut oils). An accumulation of cholesterol called plaque on the interior of artery walls will narrow the opening, elevating blood pressure and possible stroke/heart attack should it continue.

Question: I Saw an Ad for "Cholest Off Complete" (By "Nature Made"), Claiming Reduction In Cholesterol From Two Sources- -Dietary and "Genetic", What is the Genetic Mechanism? It is Interesting to Compare the Ingredients for "Cholest Off" and "Cholest Off Complete": Cholest Off: Ingredients Plant sterols/stanols (pine tree) Other Ingredients: Tribasic Calcium Phosphate, Croscarmellose Sodium, Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose, Calcium Carbonate, Silicon Dioxide, Magnesium Stearate, Titanium Dioxide (artificial color), Polyethylene Glycol, Triethyl Citrate, Polysorbate 80, Sodium Citrate. Cholest Off Complete: Ingredients Plant sterols/stanols (pine tree), Pantethine (Pantesin) Other Ingredients: Tribasic Calcium Phosphate, Calcium Carbonate, Cellulose Gel, Silicon Dioxide,Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose, Croscarmellose Sodium, Crospovidone, Silica, Magnesium Stearate, Titanium Dioxide (artificial color), Polyethylene Glycol, Triethyl Citrate, Polysorbate 80, Sodium Citrate. [Excuse me, but Aren't These Both Essentially the Same?] Yeah K, I can't See it as Any Better than Taking Fiber Orally. K, the Purveyors Should Be Ashamed, don't they Realize that Allowing the Advertising of a Product, Amounts to Endorsing the Product. K, I Think Making Money Outweighs Everything Else. So Due Diligence is Never Done. Yeah K, Pretty Basic Stuff. K, I Just Saw Another Ad Pushing the Cholesterol Lowering Effect of "Phytosterols", "Centum Cardio", you Would Think Many Manufacturers Suddenly Discovered the Cholesterol Lowering Effect of Consuming Fiber.

Answer: Looks like another bullsh$t product. On their website, they have in bold print: "Cholest Off Complete Reduces the 2 Sources of Cholesterol--Diet and Genetic". THEN, there is a tiny, itsy, bitsy footnote that says, "These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. [AND], this product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure,or prevent any disease". So, basically they are liars. Claims to treat, contradicted on the same page. How they get away with blatent lies is beyond me!! I don't know how these guys are selling any of this stuff. Just for entertainment value, the genetic cholesterol this sham...oh, excuse me, I mean, product, is suppose to reduce is that "naturally produced in everybody's liver". Yeah. I mean, what exactly is useful in the ingredients list? Isn't this barely just a pinch of protein (i.e., pine tree), a derivative of pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), aka, pantethine, calcium, plus a bunch of other fillers? So, if I go out a buy a box of cereal, the kind with nuts on them, and eat them with milk, looks like I'll achieve the same "result"?....notice the sarcastic quotes :-) :-). EDIT: Yeah, it's complete crap. AND, they didn't even really do a good of disguising this either. I mean, on the SAME page, they contradict themselves. Pretty lame. EDIT 2: They *should* be ashamed. Yup, and I think it does boil down to that. You allow the advertisement, you endorse. Perhaps money helps quell any negative emotions they might feel about it. Perhaps they get by on lying to themselves. Perhaps they don't care. Maybe they "believe" in the product. If you believe long enough, will it come true? Ha-ha. Totally not cool, anyhow. EDIT 3: Yup. Garden variety greed, then, and a never ending money trail, so that actions can never be evaluated in terms of whether they coincide with 'standards'. Nice how money allows people to sleep at night. These manufacturers and advertisers must know, on some level, that they are ripping people off. Guess money has the ability to numb morality, emotion, and the humanness right out of people. EDIT 4: Yeah, pretty basic.... EDIT 5: Hilarious!! Yeah, looks like a bunch of numb-skulls read a book and then immediately inquired: "well, what do you all think? How can we use this to best rip people off?" Cholest-off is a joke. They did a real poor job of disguising their scam. Perhaps these manufacturers will do a "better" job. Hey, or perhaps these manufacturers realized what a crap disguising job Cholest-off had done and thought they could do better, so have "created" this "new" product with the same aim. Geeez. Unbelieveable.

Question: When following a LOW CARB diet, how conterproductive is using blood pressure drugs and cholesterol drugs? When folloing a low carb diet, how conterproductive is using Avalide which includes 12.5 mgs of diuretic in it and using crestor for cholesterol reduction? i have followed low carb diets with much success in the past. but this time around i lost about 15 lbs and stopped losing. the only difference is i am taking blood pressure and cholesterol medications

Answer: How long ago did you successfully use the Low Carb diet? Age can have a major effect on your metabolism. And judging from the drugs you are on - I would say you don't exercise much. If you are eating the same amounts as you did back then and are at the same activity level, then I would say your metabolism has naturally decreased over time. It is time to get back in the gym, and exercise (with your doctors approval) to boost your metabolism - it is something you should be doing anyways.

Question: 1-is cholesterol level related to stress and depression? 2-if we reduce the cholesterol level it might cause to reduction in blood sugar?

Answer: no. the only way that cholesterol would be related to stress is indirectly. for example if a person had a doctor's visit and found out that they had a dangerously high cholesterol level it could cause stress and add to depression, but directly there isn't a relationship between them. Your second question is the same answer. reducing your cholesterol will not reduce your blood sugar directly. the only way it would, would be because of diet changes to reduce the cholesterol. so the answer to both questions is no, not directly, but yes they could indirectly.

Question: How much excercise contribute to the reduction of heart disease? I have heart disease .. im 36 and both me folks have raised cholesterol , but im thinking, can i reduce my cholestorol by excercising at least 5hours/week? Surely it will raise my HDL and lower my LDL .. but will it be a significant amount ?

Answer: Yes, definitely. You have the right idea about the 5 hours a day. A certain website I just found explains that physical Inactivity puts you at great risk, if you are a heart disease victim. here's an excerpt from the article: "Regular aerobic physical activity increases your fitness level and capacity for exercise. It also plays a role in both primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease. Physical inactivity is a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke and is linked to cardiovascular mortality." that excerpt was from this article: http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4726 here is another with good information, it is entitled, "Exercise Before and After Heart Disease" http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=42386 I don't know whether or not you have diabetes, but it seems diabetes and heart disease could have something to do with each other. If you are interested, check this article out: http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/common/diabetes/complications/647.html Hope this helps

Question: I've read:cholesterol's EVENLY present in meat-useless to remove visible fat.True?Even for chicken/pork fat? Of course removal of visible fat reduces volume that's consumed so that there's reduction in cholesterol ingested in any case. But what about implication that doing that is no better than removing equal amount/weight of lean meat?

Answer: Be vegetarian :):)

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Question: Body Fat Reduction! How do I do it? I'm trying to reduce my body fat percentage to about 10%. It's currently approximately 20%. I do both cardio and weight exercises but I've come to the point where I'm not changing much any more and I really need to lower my body fat percentage to see the difference. Exercise alone will not achieve this but diet will. Apparently reducing calories is not the answer but reducing the carbs and wheat is, but I really really don't want to do the Atkins diet because My cholesterol iis borderline high and my blood pressure is a tad high too! Anybody got any suggestions?

Answer: Carbs? Fat? What a pile of bullsh!t. You have probably just got into a plateau from doing the same exercises week in, week out so your muscles - which have memory - have got bored, are no longer stimulated and thus the muscle has stopped growing and the fat has stopped melting. Start mixing up your work out routine and, needless to say, make sure you eat healthy foods and cut all of the crap out. Keep your calorie intake at no LESS than around 1500-1800 calories and no more than 2100 per day (assuming you are an "average" sized adult male). Eat small amounts of food around 6 times a day. Start doing shorter, but really intense CV sessions. Start doing new weights exercises. Also, you cannot burn fat without eating healthy. Go do a gym workout then go home and eat sh!t = very poor, if no weight loss at all. Likewise, eat healthy a don't exercise = very poor weight loss as well. Finally, let's talk about carbs. Carbs are not bad. That is marketing, Atkins diet, weapons-grade horsesh!t. You lose fat by a very simple equation - less calories in, MORE calories out. Carbs are energy (and like most things considered "food", contain calories). You need them if you exercise. They are also almost as essential as PROTEIN if you want to build muscle. They get glycogen back into the muscles and help synthesise protein. Just stay away from processed (white) carbs - like white bread, white pasta, white rice, etc. And instead, hit the wholegrain carbs - wholegrain bread, wholegrain pasta, wholegrain rice, oats, etc. These are good carbs, and are excellent for energy, stabalising blood sugar levels and thus can help REDUCE body fat. Also, not eating carbs after X hour of the day is also complete bull. I eat carbs after my workouts at about 8.30-9pm, yet I have still managed to burn off around 2 stone of body fat in 10 months... So what does that say??? Exercise correctly/regularly and eat a healthy, balanced diet (wholegrain (carbs), lean meats, fruit, veg, nuts, seeds) and the weight will fall off and, assuming you are doing weights and doing it properly, the muscle will grow. Hope this helps you misinformed cretin.

Question: Which of the following would not shift the demand curve the beef? A. A widely publicized study that indicates beef increases one's cholesterol. B. A reduction in the price of cattle feed. C. An effective advertising campaign by pork producers. D. A change in the incomes of beef consumers.

Answer: B affects the supply curve and not the demand. It would shift the supply curve to the right creating a lower Eq point where supply meets demand causing the demand to go up for beef with a lower price.