02-09-2005, 08:07 PM
Hi,
In support of your statements:
About fifteen years or so ago I worked with a number of people that were in a large, long term (5 years, IIRC), research study on cholesterol conducted by the University of Washington. At that time I saw a preliminary report. The conclusions were that while diet and/or exercise would moderate cholesterol levels for a while, eventually (two years was about the norm) the level would return to approximately where it had been before. Most of the previous studies that showed improvement in levels with exercise or diet were too short. The body simply needed more time to catch up with the changing conditions.
I could not find a reference to the UW study using the limited resources of this computer, but perhaps I've given you enough info to track it down (I'm assuming, of course, that it was eventually published in an archival journal).
The best thing to do for cholesterol is to pick the right ancestors. Failing that, medication is probably the best bet and even that does not work for anyone.
Why is it that with the greatest medical and media communities in history, all we've seemed to do is exchange ignorance for misinformation in the general population? Just last week my doctor repeated that old crap about caffeine dehydration.
--Pete
In support of your statements:
About fifteen years or so ago I worked with a number of people that were in a large, long term (5 years, IIRC), research study on cholesterol conducted by the University of Washington. At that time I saw a preliminary report. The conclusions were that while diet and/or exercise would moderate cholesterol levels for a while, eventually (two years was about the norm) the level would return to approximately where it had been before. Most of the previous studies that showed improvement in levels with exercise or diet were too short. The body simply needed more time to catch up with the changing conditions.
I could not find a reference to the UW study using the limited resources of this computer, but perhaps I've given you enough info to track it down (I'm assuming, of course, that it was eventually published in an archival journal).
The best thing to do for cholesterol is to pick the right ancestors. Failing that, medication is probably the best bet and even that does not work for anyone.
Why is it that with the greatest medical and media communities in history, all we've seemed to do is exchange ignorance for misinformation in the general population? Just last week my doctor repeated that old crap about caffeine dehydration.
--Pete
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