Genetically High Cholesterol in Children?

Question

I am 12 years old and i have high cholesterol (genettically) almost eveyrone one my dads side had it. I got tested yesterday and I have a totalt cholesterol of 223, and good cholesterol 50 (i am a girl) About 6 months ago i had 216, and about a year or 2 ago it was 236. Anyway, my mom ha slimited me to 2 fast food places a month (like mcdonalds) and since i lov epopcorn, but it is high in cholesterol 1 bag of popcorn a week. Besides that, I usually eat a salad or chicken patty with milk at school, get a small snack at home (like fruits and sometimes chips) and then my mom cooks something for dinner. Well, since im young i cant take pills to lower my cholesterol, but what else can i do. I exercise sometimes, and i play basketball twice a week for about an hour. what other things can i do and what other things can i eat to lower my cholesterol?

Answer 1

hey
i had loads of problems until i quit wheat

substitute with corn bread (made without wheat) even oatmeal cake is nice - use baking powder and eggs to bind and make rise and i use loads of ginger and cinnamon cos that's what i like

took me a while cos i love wheat - no pizza no pasta o lord it was hard but 15 years later don't miss it much - love baked potatoes and white cheese and olive oil and herbs yumm
also you can do a kind of french toast thing with rivita - ok not the greatest but it works
also rivita in microwave with slices of mushroom or apple or whatever and topped with white cheese (stay away from coloured foods)
sliced pears and cheese - mmmm
apples and cheese great
salads chopped with friut and loads of different oils walnut olive sesame and herbs oregano mixed and parsley fennel seeds and cumin - hey you go look and experiment it's fun
and eat as much as you like - no diet - just stay away from bread and butter
butter is lethal and margarine not much better
chips is fine made with olive oil
anything poptatoes is fine as long as you haven't got those nasty e things in it and quick in microwave for a snack
try puttin potatoes (preferably organic) in mircorwave for 4 minutes or more if bigger
then slice them up with some ginger root and celery and herbs and olive oil and fry in pan
you can use bean noodles - just the same as the pot noodle - pour in boiling water and bingo - or rice noodles work too
and fry a cup of rice in olive oil with herbs and for five minutes then add two cups boiling water - bring to boil and then cover and bung it in warm but switched off oven - in 3/4 hour you have really beautiful rice - add oil and a fried egg
i'm telling you cooking can be weird and fun

Answer 2

You got an unfortunate roll of the dice at conception, but with attention to diet, exercise and lipid levels, you can live an otherwise normal life. As you get older you can also take one of the cholesterol lowering drugs. Meanwhile, keep up the good work with what you have been doing.

Good luck!

Answer 3

Pay NO ATTENTION to the guy above me.




MOUNDS AND MOUNDS OF VALID SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE SHOULD HAVE DESTROYED THE CHOLESTEROL HYPTHESIS YEARS AND YEARS AGO,

STARTING OFF WITH THE EXTREMELY METICULOUS WORK OF DRS KURT LANDE AND WARREN SPURRY IN 1936 WHO FOUND ABSOLUTELY NO CORRELATION BETWEEN THE AMOUNT OF CHOLESTEROL IN THE BLOOD AND THE DEGREE OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS.

THEIR NAMES ARE ALWAYS "MYSTERIOUSLY" ABSENT IN cHOLESTEROL PROPONENTS PAPERS.


TO QUOTE DR. UFFE RAVNSKOV IN AN EXCERPT FROM HIS BOOK
" Let me return to the study of the Framingham group. Perhaps you think that the cholesterol campaign was cancelled after the results of the Framingham study came in. Not at all. The reason low cholesterol levels were associated with greater mortality, said the investigators, was that people with low cholesterol levels were dying of other diseases. But their results contradicted that explanation. Wrote the authors: Those whose cholesterol had DECREASED by itself during these 30 years ran a greater risk of dying than those whose cholesterol had increased.


To cite the report :"For each 1% mg/dl drop of cholesterol there was an 11 percent increase in coronary and total mortality"

Thus, not only total mortality but also coronary mortality had increased.


Now stop for a moment! For many years we have been told how important it is to lower our cholesterol to prevent coronary heart disease. But the Framingham Study demonstrated that if blood cholesterol DECREASES by itself, the risk of dying INCREASES.

Few people know about this alarming finding, and the study is rarely discussed in medical reviews on cholesterol and heart disease . Even worse, when the study is noted, it is cited as SUPPORTING the diet-heart idea! Consider the joint statement by the American Heart Association and the National Heart ,Lung and Blood Institute in their review titled "The Cholesterol Facts" "The results of the Framingham study indicate that a 1 % reduction in cholesterol [ corresponds to a ] 2 % reduction in CHD risk."


Please go back to the citation from the report. Yes, you are right. According to the original report mortality INCREASED and by 11 percent for each 1 mg/dl reduction in blood cholesterol. BUT the review stated that mortality DECREASED.

Your next thought might be that the distinguished authors of the review were referring to another of the numerous reports from Framingham, but this is not the case. . And as we shall see ., this was only one of many "mistakes" For example in 1987. the Framingham authors published a new report concerning the 30 years follow - up in Framingham . Without presenting anything other than complicated ratios and statistical calculations , and without referring to their previous report , they stated "The most important finding is the emergence of total cholesterol concentration as a risk factor for CHD in the elderly"

Isn't it strange the cholesterol liner continues its voyage without any reaction from its passengers or crew? The few that have observed the ship is leaning are numbered by the captain's assurances that it has only struck an iceburg"


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Answer 4

No i would not, because in doing so science may find that they are helping in one area if diseases and complications and end up making some other disease or complication. It's like the theory of evolution, we all evolve in our own time, if we are meant to be disease free at some point in time then it will happen, or we will find the cure for it. To genetically alter people and other things can end up being something that we are not expecting in terms of negative consequences as opposed to the positive expectations.

Answer 5

genetically high cholesterol children

Answer 6

Unfortunately with a genetic predisposition dietary changes will only help a little. Your parents should discuss this situation with your doctor