high cholesterol?

Question

I just got a call from my dr that my cholesterol level is 245. This is the first time I've ever been diagnosed as having high cholestrol. I am 27 years old, don't smoke, in the normal range of weight for my height, exercise 5 days a week for 60 minutes. What else could be causing this?

Answer 1

At this young age and with such an excercise regime, it appears to be heredity. If yours parents/grand parents are in fine health, then read the followings, which I have seen on the net.

Renegade Australian researcher reveals
The Greatest Scam in the History of Medicine!

Why Your Fear of Cholesterol Could Be Killing You

If you're like most people, you honestly believe that keeping a low blood cholesterol level and avoiding fatty foods are the keys to escaping the deadly clutches of heart disease.

For years you've been watching your cholesterol levels like a hawk. You've been meticulously trimming the fat from your meats, drinking skim milk, and eating only the lowest fat foods you can find. Your doctor has even placed you on statins, those 'miracle' cholesterol-lowering drugs that allegedly slash your risk of heart disease by one-third!

Guess what?

You are WASTING YOUR TIME - and MONEY!

You don't know it yet, but you've fallen hook, line and sinker for the biggest scam in the history of medicine! You're not alone - your neighbours, your doctor, the reporters who write the health articles appearing in your daily newspaper, and even thousands of experienced researchers have also been effortlessly taken in by this elaborate con!

It's time the truth was known. Despite years of vilifying animal fats and instilling cholesterol paranoia in people the world over, the sad reality is that the age-adjusted incidence of heart disease has not declined one iota! Health authorities are quick to boast that the death rate from heart disease has declined since the late sixties, but this is wholly due to improved medical care of those who already have heart disease!

The medical establishment is not preventing heart disease from occurring - it is only extending the lives of those who already have heart disease. If the anti-cholesterol, anti-fat campaign was effective in reducing heart disease, it would stop people from having heart attacks in the first place. But it doesn't!

How many more lives must be needlessly lost before people realize they've been conned?

I'm here to tell you that blood cholesterol does not cause heart disease - and never has! Neither do those highly vilified saturated fats you go to painstaking lengths to avoid! In fact, there is abundant evidence to show that saturated fats are good for you!

By now you're probably asking yourself, "Is this guy crazy?"

Well, that's what the drug companies and low-fat food manufacturers who make billions in revenue each year as a direct result of the reigning cholesterol paranoia would like you to believe! It's also what 'respectable' health authorities - who receive millions in 'donations' from food and drug companies in one hand, while disseminating allegedly 'impartial' health advice to the public on the other - would have you believe.

But the truth is, I'm not an axe-grinding fringe lunatic. My name is Anthony Colpo and I'm a very serious independent researcher. When I say cholesterol does not cause heart disease, I can readily back up my assertions with a mountain of evidence from peer-reviewed medical journals. I've also had my own research published in the peer-reviewed scientific literature (you can click here to view this research).

Unlike the drug companies, the food manufacturers, and the public and private health agencies that have intimate financial ties to these industries, I don't profit from cultivating cholesterol paranoia.

For years, I've been challenging all-comers to prove me wrong, to provide the definitive clinical evidence that cholesterol and saturated fat cause heart disease.

No-one has been able to do so (you can view one unsuccessful attempt here along with my reply), and here's why:




The Evidence does NOT exist!

The shocking, sordid tale of the cholesterol scam - a mind-boggling saga of ignorance, corruption, deceit and greed - is a subject worthy of an entire book! So that's exactly what I've done; after years of research, I've finally put together The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've Been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong!

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In The Great Cholesterol Con, you will learn how decades of research, published in the world's most prestigious medical journals, clearly show that the anti-cholesterol campaign is a farce!

The Great Cholesterol Con will take you right back to the beginning of the cholesterol theory. You'll learn how the initial research implicating cholesterol and saturated fats in heart disease was based on some very questionable assumptions.


Not only was the research that launched the cholesterol paranoia a sham, but so too is the 'research' that keeps it alive and thriving.

You will learn why:
A single disgruntled researcher, who conducted some of the sloppiest and most shamelessly biased research ever seen, was largely responsible for launching the anti-animal fat/anti-cholesterol mania as we know it today!

The rise in coronary heart disease that occurred during the twentieth century had nothing whatsoever to do with saturated fat intake!
Study after study has shown that people with so-called 'healthy' low cholesterol levels actually live shorter lives!
Upon closer scrutiny, the very studies that have formed the cornerstone of the anti-cholesterol argument actually show that cholesterol and saturated fat are not harmful!
Numerous populations consuming high saturated fat diets have been documented to enjoy very low rates of heart disease!
Over fifty years' worth of clinical dietary intervention trials have completely failed to show any mortality benefit among those following saturated fat-restricted diets - in fact, several of these studies showed higher death rates among those assigned to diets low in saturated fats!
Many dietary recommendations made by 'experts' to reduce heart disease have actually been shown in animal and human studies to increase heart disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity!

The primary force behind the anti-cholesterol paradigm is not public health, but greed! Drug companies, food companies, the medical profession, and health organizations all make billions in dollars of profit from the cholesterol theory!
If you have been convinced that the cholesterol theory is all about furthering public health, you could not be more wrong!

After reading The Great Cholesterol Con, you'll know more about cholesterol and heart disease than most doctors! And more importantly, you'll discover what really promotes heart disease and what you can do to prevent it!

Did you know that:

Your blood sugar level is a far more powerful influence on your future heart attack risk than blood cholesterol could ever dream of being?
Stress is one of the most powerful, but underrated, triggers of heart disease?
That the low-fat diet you are following to avoid coronary disease may in fact be setting you up for a deadly heart attack?
That, despite an abundant calorie intake, the diet eaten by most people leaves their hearts and arteries starved of the very nutrients they need to repair themselves?
That a little-known substance exerts a huge influence over whether or not you will succumb to heart disease? (Learn what this substance is, and how to maintain healthy levels of it!)
That the type of fat you eat is more important than the amount of fat you eat?
That regular exercise can keep 'old' hearts as robust as young ones?
That the mineral iron may hold the key to one of the greatest heart disease mysteries of all time?
That your dentist may be a more powerful ally in your quest to avoid heart disease than your doctor?
That the massively-hyped Polypill is based on some highly questionable research assumptions?
That a safe, effective drug-free 'Polypill' is already widely available?
When it comes to increasing lifespan, aspirin, cholesterol drugs, bypass surgery and angioplasty are utterly useless for the majority of people they are prescribed for?
That vegetarian eating has not been shown to extend mortality or protect against heart disease?
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Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD. Independent researcher, spokesman for The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics (www.thincs.org) and author of The Cholesterol Myths: Exposing the Fallacy that Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease.

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Natural Cholesterol Guide?

Answer 5

I am not sure that you have actually asked a question, you have listed what has happened to your husband, but not really said what you want to know? You have not given your husbands age, medical history or current medication history if there is one, nor said if he smoke, which would be a disaster and if he does should be the first thing to go. He appears from what you have said to have 3 risk factors:- Overweight, though you don't give the level. Raised blood pressure. Raised cholesterol. There are a number of things he can try and do to help himself, though they are unlikely to result in him avoiding medication if the problems are well established. They are all pretty obvious lifestyle changes. Moderate regular exercise 5 days a week, within the limitations currently imposed by his weight and his asthma. This would help him lose weight, it also lowers blood pressure and increases HDL cholesterol, the good cholesterol. A weight reduction diet, low in animal fats, this wold help weight loss, which helps lower blood pressure and help lower cholesterol. It would also reduce his future risk of diabetes, which is the next stage in what is often called 'the metabolic syndrome'. ( obesity, hypertension,hypercholesterolaemia, diabetes and heart disease, making up a composite disease entity.) Exercise would also help his asthma, make him fitter and more able to do more exercise and as an independent positive factor increase his lifespan. It is also a good idea to reduce salt intake. It is a bit of a tall order to get all these things right, but if you do the odds move in your favour!

Answer 6

Your diet could be a factor. Also, some high cholesterol problems are hereditary, so if you have a family history of cardiovascular problems that could contribute to the situation. Check with your family for persons who have had heart attacks and heart disease to see. Also talk to your doctor about the levels for the different types of cholesterol (LDL, HDL and triglycerides). HDL is the good cholesterol, see if that number is low or high, need to keep it above a certain level and keep the LDL and triglycerides down.

Answer 7

it could be the food you are eating, which can be fixed, or heriditery, only meds can fix. Try eating a low fat, low sodium, low cholesterol diet. Eat foods like, salads, oatmeal, whole grain cereals, stuff like that for 1 month, go back to get blood work done, if it's the same, you need meds.
Best of luck!

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Answer 9

Unhealthy eating, and are you working out hard enough? Add more weights and if you jog, jog faster with an higher incline if you have that option.

Answer 10

Probably hereditary, but high fat diet might play a role.

Answer 11

Hereditary. If it runs in your family, there is nothing you can do about it besides taking meds.