Re: cholesterol numbers

[Guest guest]

I expect she was referring to the national guidelines of 200 mg/Dl for heart

patients. I believe the other numbers recommended are LDL< 100 and HDL above

40.

cholesterol numbers

Why would she say that a cholesterol total reading of 189 is not bad? That

sounds terrible to me. Wouldnt a doctor suggest I start losing weight

immediately? That was not suggested.

What it 'sounds like to you' is not an effective way to make a judgment.

There are dozens of sites you can visit to learn what are 'normal'

cholesterol numbers. 189 total is not particularly high. More important, what

is the

RATIO between your LDL and HDL? That is far more telling. In fact if you had

a 250 total cholesterol and 85 of it was HDL you'd be in really good shape.

As someone with a 279 total cholesterol and 139 LDL and only 47 HDL, before

zocor, I envy your 189. If you will educate yourself by reading up on

cholesterol numbers and what they mean you will be far less anxious, and I

don't

think soy milk has much to do with anything...it's also quite fattening

unless

you get NON fat soy milk.

Lil

[Guest guest]

>

> I expect she was referring to the national guidelines of 200 mg/Dl

for heart patients. I believe the other numbers recommended are LDL<

100 and HDL above 40.

I was always told that as long as the ratio between total cholesterol

and HDL was below 5 things were pretty good.

Gordon