Bringing down cholesterol (Read 1258 times)

50g? Wow. Who is always stopping to go to the bathroom on runs?

Actually I go once a day. Like clockwork too.

Heat the milk to hot to the touch, which is 180 degrees. Cool the milk to warm to the touch, which is 120 degrees. Add old yogurt. Place in an oven preheated to ~100 degrees, then turned off. Wrap the jars in a towel. That will keep it warm enough.

Also, how much "old yogurt?" Any other measuring? And my doctor's office told me my cholesteral was 151 today. They didn't break it down, which ticked me off. They started to ramble about insurance plans and, since mine was "great," further breakdown wasn't needed. A few years ago, mine was near 220. Less crap "food" and more miles. A lot more miles. I also figure booze cuts through it. Haven't reduced my cheese intake one bit, though. In fact, I'm going to get a cocktail and a chunk of Cypress Grove cheese right now and log my run.

Thanks, Trent! Can't wait to make the yogurt. (Not tonight: we have store stuff to go through first.)

Well, I'm not a doctor, but I've played the game as a child, so you'd have to take my "orders" with that in mind. It's probably the running, which led to @ 20 pounds of weight loss from my heaviest, when my cholesterol was also high. And as I said, I cut out crap "food." I used to buy lunch a lot and, even though I may have had breakfast, when coworkers were going for a bagel, I'd almost always get one. Or one w/ bacon egg and cheese. Totally cut those out and saved tons of money, too. And like the commercial says, cholesterol comes from two sources: My dad watches his diet and excercises, but has highish cholesterol anyway. My mom, who is morbidly obese and is largely inactive says she has low cholesterol.

The stuff that drips off as you are making the yogurt cheese is the whey. It is protein-rich. Save it and use it as part of the liquid when making bread.

Time for my two cents on this one. As you can see by previous replies, weight and proportion have little to do with High Cholesterol verses your Genes, diet and exercise. I'm 5' 10" tall and slender. At 40, my cholesterol went form a steady 189-191 to something like 230. First thing my Dr did, was to request a retest to validate the finding. But it was pretty accurate. Research with my family found that my Mother and all of my surviving 5 siblings (4 older and 1 younger) all have high cholesterol and all taking medication to control. Mine was not as high as theirs, my Dr believed it was only because I was more physically active than the rest of them. So he suggested that I start controlling my diet. I thought eating a lot of salads would be good for me and cut out the daily hamburger and french fries for lunch as well as frequent stops at McDonalds and Burger King. Like someone else said, I cut out most cheese, but after a couple of years, there was only a moderate drop. Then I started reading labels on things and was shocked to see how many grams of fat they contained. One of the worst were salad dressings and here I was eating 1-2 salads everyday. So we switch to healthier oils like sunflower seed and olive oil with vinegar and lad fat dressings Over the next couple of years, again, I only saw slight decreases in my cholesterol levels, but my Dr was fairly happy that it was going down instead of up. When I started running, I became more diet conscious, eating more healthier stuff and cutting out even more of the junk foods and trying to eat smaller portions of meat and eating more fish, turkey etc. Last Sept at my checkup and after 4 years of running, my cholesterol was down to 190 (Don't remember the breakdown) but he did comment that he still would like to see my LDL go done more and bring my HDL up more, but that he was happy to see that I am still on a downward trend. So I'm stuck with Genes for poor cholesterol, on the other hand, my wife is 50 lbs over weight, doesn't exercise, eats a lot of potato chips and other junk food and her cholesterol is like 160. So after all I've said, I think the message for everyone, no matter what your age is, know your family history and talk to your Dr about it. When I did this, I found out that all 4 of my older siblings have had bots with cancer and I've lost two other older siblings to cancer. So cancer is very prevalent in my immediate family, however my mother is 85 and has never had any cancer. But on the good side, no one in my family has heart disease and diabetes.

I made TONS of Marinar sauce with just the basil and tomatoes overgrowing in the yard.

Sounds like a good idea... If only I had chef skills Tomato and basil are two things that I can generally get to thrive in my vegetable garden though...