Thu, Sep-05-02, 18:06
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Plan: Bernstein Diabetes Soluti
Stats: 260/-/145
BF:
Progress: 63%
Location: Michigan
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More info, please
Hi Cydspal!
No need to drop the eggs just yet (or even at all, really), but without a more detailed idea of what you've been eating, it's hard to even hazard a guess at what's going on. What is your daily level of carb intake? How often do you eat bacon? How much fiber do you get daily? I'd hazard a guess from your triglyceride level that you may still be eating too many carbs, but I may be wrong with that; too many carbs with too much fat is not a good combination.
Having said that, study after study has shown that the cholesterol that we eat in our diets has very little effect on the total amount of cholesterol in our bodies. When we don't get enough, our bodies simply make cholesterol and it's usually the bad kind when it does.
I have a theory. Now, this is just a theory and I have no real scientific evidence to back it up; just my own anecdotal evidence and that is that the nitrates in the bacon and sausage have a negative effect on cholesterol. When I first started low carbing, I was eating a lot of bacon and sausage too and my cholesterol went up. When I cut it out for the most part, it went back down again, lower than it was before. It's not that I lowered the saturated fat because I still eat beef and pork, often several times a week. So....my suggestion would be to cut out meats that have nitrates in them (they're bad for you in other ways anyway) and see what happens. More fiber would be a good thing, too and you may want to visit the supplements section to see if there's anything there that might help. I've read good things about Niacin, garlic, fish oil and flax oil and I take fish oil myself.
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