I did see the program and was intensely interested. I am 5'5" and 125 and have very high cholestoral. I have refused the statins because I am a just a cranky Yankee who hates to take pills unless I absolutely must. Also, I had had a doctor about 10 years ago who basically said the same thing. You don't die from high cholestoral and he was pretty much against the statins. In mid July cholestoral was 270. In a final attempt to get this under control, I gave up my beloved routine dinner of wine and cheese. Perfect dinner with no cooking
Still take the red wine ..health reasons
but not a slice of cheese. Yesterday I went to get the cholestoral checked and it actually went down 34 points..unfortunately so did the "good". So now I am adding fish oil to see if I can get the good to go up. Meanwhile, I was online yesterday about all the cholestoral info and came across an article which, if I can find again, I will post. It totally supported the doctors on the show yesterday and the premise that all LDL is not bad. Not the "larger and fluffier" type. It is the other smaller type that is really bad. I didn't know there was a test I could take but I will be asking for that in a heart beat. (haha heartbeat) I think they called it on the show the small particle test for cholestoral.
What luck to have flipped to that channel last night!