My GF was just diagnosed with high cholesterol what is the best diet for this?
Make sure she has high cholesterol before you do anything. Then realize that doctors are following the drug company advice that is NOT backed by good science at all on this issue. Women need higher cholesterol than men. The total cholesterol reading for women should be between 240 and 300 for good longevity.
Only 15% of what you eat contributes to your body cholesterol total number. 85% is made in the liver and for good reason. If you eat less cholesterol in your diet, your body just makes more to compensate for the lack of it in your diet. ALL your steroid hormones are made from cholesterol. ALL OF THEM. That is testosterone, ESTROGEN, pregnenalone, progesterone, CORTISOL, etc. are all steroid hormones that require cholesterol for synthesis in the body. If you have too little cholesterol, you won’t be transporting those fatty acids well in the body and it will contribute to slow healing.
Think about this, Lipitor that doctors are recommending and prescribing at unprecedented rate. These statin drugs like Lipitor, lower cholesterol by inhibiting HMG-CoA reductase, a key enzyme in cholesterol synthesis. In many cases these drugs activate the Atrogin-1 gene that plays a key role in muscle atrophy. Three separate tests showed that even at low concentrations, statin drugs led to Atrogin-1 induced muscle damage. As the concentrations increased, the damage increased as well.
Your heart is a muscle. Does it make sense to turn on that Atrogin-1 gene that induces muscle damage? The drug turns off the synthesis of CO-Q-quinol in the body as well. Every cell in the body needs this for energy management of the cells. This is very bad science and just shows how little medical science understands about how the body works.
There are some very good books on this subject that are written by true experts in the field of fats and oils. Mary G. Enig, Ph.D. is one of them. She is almost single handedly responsible for testifying before congress to expose TRANS FATS. She worked on this for 15 years before making any headway on this subject. Read her books if you want the truth about this cholesterol myth that drug companies are pushing so heavily.
good luck to you