DOes anyoen follow a low cholesterol diet?

[cod]

dhs is too high and he has 6 months to lower it

ok have got osme books out of the library but as wiht most health issues you geta lot of conflicting info and out of date reasearch
does anyone follow a diet that they coudl point me towards?

yes - we follow one. You can get referred to a dietician for that I assume (if you want to).

I'll have a look but ours was something to do with 'healthy heart'.

thansk in the mean time i ranghte BGb heart foudnation

god they were SO helpful

DH isn't on A Diet as such, but has inherited naturally high cholesterol and eats v healthily to keep it down.

He was given a British Heart Foundation booklet (may have been same Healthy Heart one) which said basically all the things he does already - lots of whole grains, lots of fruit & veg, no processed food, no saturated (ie animal) fats.
He (for which read all chez Badger) has cut out all crisps and all puddings - now special occasion treats only.
In opposition to the 'we love butter' thread, he has Tesco Light Olive spread (I can't stand it, too watery).
Doesn't bother with Benecol type stuff though, but if your DH has to meet a target in a set time it might help. Damned pricey though.

Do ask for a dietician referral if you fancy - she should be up to date at least, and even if you only go once it might make it all clearer.

yes htink dh and id do the Butter or nowt" school of cooking

cant stand subsittutes

thanks fo all this
i can relaly recommend bhf

yes now you mention it, pretty sure ours was some british heart foundation stuff (eating for a healthy heart or something like that) - also explained the whole saturated, monosaturated and polyunsaturated fat thing (something I had never really paid that much attention to!).

Glad they were helpful cod. Enjoy all that chicken and fish! (poor mr cod, hope he's not a butter and steak sort of bloke!)

How high is it Cod? Whether the diet will work or not kind of depends what his diet is like now, ie if he eats pretty low cholestoral stuff normally then it won't make much diff

Defo try benecol

Can't they give him that pill?

\link{http://www.weightlossresources.co.uk/diet/low_fat/low_cholesterol.htm\this might be useful}

I reckon

Porridge or bircher muesli for brekkie
Skimmed milk
Little or no butter/cheese

Lots of fish/lean chicken or pork

No baked things like croissants or pies

Instead of pudding have things like low fat yoghurt, sorbet, fruit

That should do the trick

My dh has just been told his cholesterol is high. It's 5.8 I think so not particularly high. He asked the doctor whether he could reduce it through his diet but the doc just prescribed statins!
I'm sure he could bring his cholesterol level down by diet alone but apparently these tablets are guaranteed to bring it down and are a 'good thing' if you are at a higher risk of heart attacks etc.
dh didn't really want to take them at first but has just been and picked them up. We are going to try and follow a low cholesterol diet too and hopefully will lose some weight in the process.
But it does make me wonder why the doc prescribed tablets when other people are told to go on low cholesterol diets?

I don't know how it works wordgirl

mine was higher than your dh's and my dad has hypercholesterolaemia (basically a fancy word for extremely high cholesterol) and the doctors didn't even want to see me.

Uwila has astonishingly high cholesterol (can't remember the number but it's high!) and again, her docs did nowt.

I think they look for other factors like early heart attacks in the family, history of heart disease, high bp etc.

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sop not really bad but wont do him any harm to reign in eating

ta for htat article cd wil print ouy adn look later

Cod, have they tested sensitively for the different types of cholestrol? There have been detailed threads on MN about the different types; AFAI-Remember, you can have what seems like high cholesterol, but it's the ratio of good to "bad" cholesterol that really matters, and some people just do have heaps of the "good" and not so much bad, which makes them seem to have "high" cholesterol, but in fact the ratios are very favourable & nothing to worry about.
Also, avoid hydrog/trans fats, see other threads for that!

Use the little flora drinks.I was switched to a revolutionary new transplant drug BUT it raises cholestrol I begged them not to put me on lowering drugs and to try the little drinks.They were v cynical but I took one every day after dinner for 6 weeks and just ate normal healthy food and it worked and was more succesful than they had thought so I have stuck with itHTH Also oats are v good for lowering it so porridge is fab

dunno it was a proper doctors test not a crappy one in a shop

dh alreadya porridge boy and pine nuts spmeone said

he wont do thsoe drinks previously but h maybe he will now!

Ah, that explains a lot foxinsocks. dh also has slightly high blood pressure and his dad had to have a multiple heart bypass op despite being a non-smoker and non-drinker so maybe that has something to do with it.

Like noddy says oats are great. You can also soak oats in milk or soya/rice milk for a couple of hours, along with some ground almonds and whizz up with fruit (including bananas) to make excellent and filling shakes for breakfast.

lol@" filling shakes"( rememebr htat advert/)

odnt htink it s hte breakfast thats an issue
he loves codl meats mayo butter etc adn apprently beer speeds up teh absorption fo cholesterol... :(

Mato and butter are no no's seriously esp eggs as I think my docs said the bad cholesterol in them is very available iykwim Def try the drinks I was gutted when i was diagnosed as I had had low chol for yrs but the drug caused me to retain more ,they really worked and it is a painless thing to do xx

he lOVES eggs prawns
allt eh bad stuff

adn groudn almsonds are ok?

Tell himt to stick to it for 5-6 weeks and I can guarantee when he sees the results he will be so pleased with himself he will keep going

adn wil be slimcea man