Why is it that on every page I look at there are ads for crestor and lipitor?? do they now own all doctors and are they the all powerful with God given rights to determine what is said about this topic?? We should be more concerned with the Natural way of lowering medium high levels of cholesterol  220-248 rather than saying take a pill! Especially if trigliceroids are low and the good cholesterol is high, with no other risk factors being present! In depth discussion should be here somewhere about how to naturally reduce the numbers and it is not!

I firmly believe that if a drug is not ABSULOUTLY necesary because of poor health - that drug should not be taken just to satisfy the whims of the pharmasuticle companies and or doctors who are not getting perks for prescribing said medications!!

If I had my way I would ban all prescription advertising on U.S. Telivision!! Like it is in Europe! Oh you should ad spell check to this site!!!

A pissed off researcher...

JR

1/ 3/12 12:52am

I compleatly agree with Mike and also like to comment, why Omega3 fatty acids where ommited from the discussion on cholesterol lowering strategy???

Hello,

One thing I have been seeing lately is the positive effects of weight loss on cholesterol due to the loss of omentum.  Read somewhere that the negative effect of omentum on cholesterol levels will be reduced within days of establishing weight loss in the omentum.  Is this part of why the bad cholesterol drops due to exercise from what you know?

I guarantee you that I have plenty of omentum, and my cholesterol numbers always responded well to routine exercise in the past.  Hard part is sticking with good eating and exercise program.