please empty your brain below

I like your grid/table.
Hand pasted html, I presume?

You is going to be one lean, mean blogging machine at the end of all this...

Good luck!

On the other hand, you could just eat drink and be merry, tomorrow we die? Doctors don't know everything, and statins have a lot of nasty side effects. But you can tinker with your diet, try things for a month and go and have another test, they are free at the doctors, and see what suits your metabolism.

Diamond, would it not be possible to combine 2 items from the Often and Avoid boxes so that it would equal a Sometimes box ?

The Tofu combined with a mug of melted lard sounds kinda nice.

WTH is Quorn? (from the "meat: often" square) Isn't that the name of the hunt Bertie Wooster's Aunt Dahlia used to ride with? Or was it Aunt Agatha? Maybe it's lean fox-hunter, steamed in its pink coat ???

Not "tomorrow we die" but "tomorrow we diet".

Why not just look on your doctor as the person who helps you do what you want for longer, although maybe this is an unfashionable view when the NHS seems only concerned with budgets.

It wasn't until I reached one of the last items... "low alcohol beer".

You poor poor man. You have my sympathies.

No cheese? DG I feel for you...

So what have the docs got against chip shops? I can't see any reason why battered fish produced at home should be any better for you that chip shop fish. I would say the reverse because they are better at draining them in the hot display cases above the counter.

DG, please read some of the texts linked to below, starting under "Cardiovascular Disease". Your comment about our ancestors dying young because of eating animal fats has no connection to reality. Also consider what other mammals in the wild eat, they certainly don't grow vegetable oil seeds.

With regards to eating eggs or not, please take a look at what the text headlined "Copper-Zinc Imbalance" has to say about nutritional sources of zinc. All the best to you.

You have my sympathy - this sounds horrible. No fats at all? No cheese? And what is Marmite without buttered toast? Most of the low-fat versions of proper foods are pretty terrible, especially low-fat cheese, which BOUNCES, and refuses to melt properly when placed on bread and put under a grill (it just sits there).

On the plus side, rabbit is pretty good, and sardines (not together, obviously).

If you can have home-cooked fish in suitable oil sometimes, there's no reason why you can't have potatoes roast in vegetable oil once in a while, surely?

I can't see what good artificial sweeteners do for a low cholesterol diet. I suspect this is a one-size-fits-all diet for lowering cholesterol, lowering weight and being generally puritanical. I mean, Marmite? What's that got to do with animal fats?

After I had read that list, I gave thanks that I can still eat what I like.

My mother always used to say "If you haven`t got your health, you`ve got nothing"

Tofu and Quorn are meat? Gives you great faith in their nutritional advice, no? Everyone knows tofu is made from blancmange with the interesting parts removed.

Where's lentils? Eat more lentils!

BTW, have you ever seen my favourite lorry slogan - potato company - it just says 'Eat More Chips' down the side.

Just to say, I reworded and rejigged and simplified the advice I was given, because the real table was rather longer (and had four columns). Today's post may, therefore, contain inaccuracies and inconsistencies...

The following blog articles are very interesting and have lots of links to source material.

http://www.healthbeatblog.org/
20...holesterol.html


http://www.healthbeatblog.org/20...origins-
of.html


Good luck with your new diet.

If you are a meat eater - you should reconsider your view on veal.

The situation has / is changing with Veal.

see here http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/food\\_m...ters/
veal.shtml


As long as it is British Pink Veal.

If anything by eating Pink Veal you would be helping to reduce the amount of calves slaughtered at birth or sent to the continent for their calf production.

I'm not entering into any discussions with anyone about rights or wrongs just thought it might be worth DG looking into because of diet restriction.

Good Luck

If it's any help I have been on such a regime for over 15 years and once I got used to it I can honestly say the only thing I still miss is cheese.

I've also been on statins for a long time with no noticeable side effects. I'm still pretty active at 67 doing some fairly long walks each day and also a fair bit of cycling.

Ever thought of biking to work from E3? - I used to live in the E. End and from 1977 to 1996 did a daily cycle commute to the Strand for 9 years from E. Ham and for 10 years from Wanstead.

Saves all the trauma of the tube and lots of money in fares!

You have to be bit mad though - realise it's not for everyone.

Best of British anyway.

Why is Marmite under "Sweet stuff". Have you never tasted it?

mmmmmmmmmm melted lard in a mug. Extra good with added salt

(says he, tucking into pork dripping on toast)

I grew up having dripping on toast for Sunday tea, steamed suet puds twice a week, and loadsa cheese, home-made cakes and pies every day(meat was rationed), I'm 63 still here and fit as a fiddle. We had no T.V. car or computers, and walked everywhere. I'm careful now tho, can't see why Marmite is in the occasional column. As I said yesterday, who wants to live to be a hundred if you can't eat chocolate or cake. Good Luck with it anyway.

This 'diet' sounds like a recipe to the development of some other condition next month.

For which, no doubt, there will be another equally well-intentioned but equally misleading badly-photocopied version.

Too little calcium and too many potatoes and too much fruit juice (and the suggestion of artifical sweeteners - several still on the market over here are already banned in other countries - for a start (osteoporosis and high blood glucose).

And avoid coleslaw????

Provided it's not smothered in full-fat mayonnaise, or artificially-sweetened diet stuff, I can see no justifiaction at all. Home-made (grated carrot, thinly sliced white cabbage, a bit of onion or garlic, and some healthy seeds (optional)), with a low-fat yoghurt/low-fat mayo/lemon juice dressing, and lots of black pepper, is good for almost anybody I'd say...

I know you claim not to like garlic DG, but it is extremely good for doing what you've been told to do. It might be a lesser evil than statins.

If the loss of ice cream becomes too much in the summer try frozen yoghurt. I really like it and I can't stand normal yoghurt. Good luck. I'm on a self imposed diet and if I see anyone with a pie in hand I'm likely to take thier arm off at the elbow with one bite.

Drop the milk completely from your tea. You'll then taste real tea for the first time

I have to follow this diet too as I have genetically inherited high BP and cholesterol...and I do...with two exceptions. Every day I eat a little piece of chocolate and most evenings I have a glass of red wine. These two treats help me to smile and enjoy my life while adhering to everything in the 'good' column. BTW when I admitted to the cheating, my doc said these were ok!

The problem is the different opinions on what you can and can't eat in situations like this. I often wonder why, for example, there seem to be so many varying (and often conflicting) diets for those who wish to lose weight (the GI index, Weight Watchers, the Atkins diet and so on). I don't know if low cholesterol diets are more clear cut.

Personally, I don't see what's wrong with the occasional cupcake or garnishing of coleslaw, as long as you make sure that your cholesterol levels are kept down in the long term. In this case, you should move everything in the Avoid column under Sometimes. At least it will encourage you to keep at it if you know you can still give yourself treats once in a while. Additionally, you should easily be able to burn these extra calories off if you exercise often enough.

I think the reason most diets fail is because people try to stick to it too rigidly, and don't reward themselves should they keep it going. Of course, without treats, you're just going to give up in the end, especially if you feel that everyone else gets to eat what they like.

A few bullet points to back up my point can be found here:
http://www.exrx.net/FatLoss/WhyDietsFail.html

Actually, you can make a perfectly acceptable roast potato using a little bit of a 'suitable' oil. I don't see that they should necessarily be in the 'avoid' column, as long as you don't make them with goose fat...

Coleslaw update: the exact Avoid wording was "Coleslaw or other salad in unspecified dressing".

Roast potato update: these are mentioned twice - in the Sometimes column ("roast potatoes fried in suitable oil") and in the Avoid column ("roast potatoes fried in saturated fat").

As someone who tends to eat other people's roast potatoes rather than my own, I can't guarantee what they've been fried in. I'll just have to make a fuss in restaurants and ask.

You won't live longer. It'll just feel that way

Welcome to my life - lived, not very dangerously, almost entirely in the 'Often' column of your table.

With a family history of diabetes and obesity, it's the least I can do to maximise my chances to escape the genetic curse.

The good news is, you can get used to almost anything, it just takes a little time, dedication and planning ahead.

Low-sugar jelly is my favourite (allowed) dessert now. I add some pieces of fruit (a few grapes, strawberries or satsuma segments) before it sets.

Had a similar test last week and got 6.1 plus my blood pressure is a bit high. Does that mean that I'm truly f****d?
Love the diet table - already stuck on the fridge door

Piece of peece. Give it three months and I predict you'll have gone all evangelical about healthy eating, just like an ex smoker.

I work with a girl who inherited high cholesterol from her mum, she was on medication before she was 30 but I think she's off it now. She eats well, exercises and is a regular in the pub on a Friday.

You can do this.

My mother, a GP, says she'd rather eat butter and chocolate and die happy than be stuck in a home and thin =). They have to tell you this stuff so that they get paid. So long as your diet is balanced and you don't eat too much crap, you'll be fine. Keep eating cheese and chocolate and anything you like. Just eat them less often, save up the cash you'd normally spend on it and buy a posh version and really enjoy it =)

Dear Lord, everything in that right hand column is my diet.

I have this feeling that the further left you go you don't really live any longer.

It will just seem like it!

Allow me to have a little rant too. It really p----s me off the way these diets assume you are overweight. Not so long ago, after blood tests, I went on a similar diet (with a few lapses). I used to be bang on my ideal weight for height but now have lost 7lb and am starting to look unpleasantly skinny. I want my 7lb back.
And what about the egg yolks, eh? You can't just throw them away, that's SO wasteful.

A. I am on a statin. Works just fine and I have no side effects that I'm aware of. I eat chocolate every day. I did stop eating icecream every day.
B. Mug of lard!!! Um, who eats/drinks this, please? Is there anyone REALLY who consumes this? This is a joke, right?

My NY resolution to go on a diet was not to have seconds at dinner time. High cocoa content chocolate should be in the often column. What you Brits call chocolate is actually vege-late: too much fat and sugar and no cocoa (One cardinal diet rule to remember: Cadbury is not chocolate)

For those asking, Marmite, while not sweet, is loaded with salt. Not a good idea to add high blood pressure to high cholesterol...

But I always thought salt only made your blood pressure go up if you aready HAD high blood pressure and that if it was normal it had no effect and was just excreted via the kidneys?

Mr Geezer, its very very simple - throw the food nazi table away and simply:

Eat A Bit Less Each Day.

Over time - rather than in two weeks of starvation, you will gradually lose weight. Far healthier and less likely to do your head in.

There are people who convert your easy to assimilate table into a diet book and then charge ten quid for it.

Good luck with the revisions but surely a little bit of what you fancy does you good too? And I'm sure I've seen red wine cited as a good 'un in diets.

This is very similar to the diet or rather 'healthy eating plan' I have been following for the last three years with the slimming club, 'Slimming World'. I must admit that I have not shifted out of the 'obese' category yet, but that is my own fault, as every so often, like at Easter, Christmas and summer holidays I sabotage any weight loss I may have achieved. I just wanted to say that if you can get hold of any Slimming World cookery books, I think you will find them very useful. The spice mixtures for the curries are very nice. I think you can probably order them through a book shop or the magazine is on sale in newsagents. A few other tips: instead of butter, I put quark (a soft white fatless cheese) on my bread, it reproduces the consistency of butter. With roast potatoes, you can get away with peeling, then par-boiling the potatoes, then spray them in olive oil (there are sprays available in the supermarkets) and roast them. You can make chips too this way, and they can be very pleasant. The spray oil is indispensible by the way.











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