Test your knowledge of cholesterol risks

[ginkgo]

Here is a quiz about High-Risk Cholesterol: Are You in Danger? from webmd: High-Risk Cholesterol: Myths vs Facts?

Fasting greatly increases cholesterol levels. If someone's cholesterol level is around 150, during and for a short time after the fast, it is likely to go above 300! This information comes from a book on fasting by Joel Fuhrman, MD who has fasted thousands of people.

It apparently was from before they knew about good cholesterol. It is probably that the HDL good cholesterol goes through the roof as the fast is taking cholesterol away from your arteries. This also probably happens with the lemonade diet. Dr Fuhrman says that the best cure for high blood pressure and cardiovascular problems is fasting with water. That is pure water-- not the stuff with minerals and other stuff in it. They are told during the fast that afterwards they will need to go on a vegan diet meaning no cholesterol in your diet

[Beuford]

I've always wondered, do you get cholesterol only from animal products?

[Eric Roosevelt]

Originally Posted by Beuford

I've always wondered, do you get cholesterol only from animal products?

There are tiny amounts in some non-animal products such as peanut oil, but it's not really significant. The only significant amounts are found in animal products. Basically the membrane of all animal cells, including our own, contains cholesterol.

[scorpio1980]

You actually get information from web MD? Wow you must really trust drug companies. Soon as I scan the page I see an ad for lipitor. I don't believe cholesterol to be bad in general, insulin levels are the best indicator for just about every disease. I'm now going to go and down my 4 eggs.

[liamona]

Originally Posted by scorpio1980

You actually get information from web MD? Wow you must really trust drug companies. Soon as I scan the page I see an ad for lipitor.

And on top of the ad there's a little box that says, "This center is funded by Pfizer"! I didn't know WebMD was such a BigPharma whore.

I guess I shouldn't be so surprised, since the cholesterol bogeyman is such a huge moneymaker. Every other person I talk to is concerned about his/her cholesterol level. I direct them to Duane Graveline's website. He's a former astronaut, doctor, and author of Lipitor, Thief of Memory.

[ginkgo]

Originally Posted by Beuford

I've always wondered, do you get cholesterol only from animal products?

Absolutely! Your liver produces most of the cholesterol in your body. Plants do not have livers. They should teach this in school. No plants have it. All animal foods have it except egg whites. All plant foods have fiber. No animal foods have fiber, although I am not sure about if you eat insects, like almost all countries except America do.

Yes webmd is funded by drug companies and you can trust them as far as you can throw them. But I put that up since it actually had great information for that kind of site. I was surprised. Say that Adolf Hitler were alive and you read that he rescued a baby from a burning house. That would be great news since it is surprising especially when read that the baby is a Jew! That is my analogy to that info on the webmd site.

[Beuford]

Originally Posted by ginkgo

They should teach this in school

Apparently they don't. School just doesn't touch on a lot of stuff I rely on the internet for most of my learning.