[ConeyIsBabe]

Here's my 2-cents worth of information on the topic of high cholesterol: Mine was 257 in 11/05 and my DR wanted me to take drugs. Believing I could lower the numbers myself by correcting my bad eating choices, I set out to do so. Three months later my chol count was 177, proving to me and my DR that it could be done. Then on 6/06 my next chol count was 174 !!

I haven't had another test since, cuz I have continued on "my version" of the Mediterranean diet: NO dairy, red meat, deli food, cold cuts, hydrogenated fat, processed frood or junk/fast food! The small sacrifice of eliminating those foods from my diet is well worth the drug-free life, to me.

P.S. This book was and still is my inspiration : "The Omega Diet" by Artemis P. Simopoulos, MD & Jo Robinson. It describes why and how !