Diet and supplement questions - High Cholesterol Message Board

eternal sanctum · 02-08-2007, 12:13 AM

I am new to all this and am wanting to avoid taking meds (my doc has prescribed Zetia).
When starting a low cholesterol diet what do I need to be paying attention to on food nutrition labels?
Should I stick with foods that have lower colesterol on the nutrition labels? I am now eating low fat ice cream and it says it has 20mg cholesterol per serving as opposed to my old ice cream which showed 30mg per serving.
How about supplements? Is Garlique a good thing to use? What about fish oil?
I read somewhere once that fish oil can actually increase cholesterol levels but my doc told me that's not true.

NHone · 02-08-2007, 12:53 AM

You might want to post your numbers first. Seems many doctors are cholesterol crazy, and love to give out not needed medication.

eternal sanctum · 02-08-2007, 12:58 AM

I can't remember the numbers exactly but my good cholesterol was 42 and the bad was somewhere around 220. Can't remember my tri's I will get exact numbers tomorrow and post them.

NHone · 02-08-2007, 05:14 PM

You need to watch the sugars. Low fat ice cream still has the same amount of sugar as the non-low fat type. Watching the carbs, sugars, and flours (the white things) should make a difference. Fish oil should probably be taken by everyone, unless that get the fish oil in their diet.

eternal sanctum · 02-08-2007, 05:52 PM

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Originally Posted by NHone

You need to watch the sugars. Low fat ice cream still has the same amount of sugar as the non-low fat type. Watching the carbs, sugars, and flours (the white things) should make a difference. Fish oil should probably be taken by everyone, unless that get the fish oil in their diet.

Do sugars cause cholesterol counts to go up? I thought just the transfats and animal fats did.
My friend told me that carbs were ok since they don't effect the cholesterol.
If I had to watch all those things (carbs, sugars, transfats, animal fats, etc...) I wouldn't have much to eat at all.