On 3/10/2015 10:44 PM, Ophelia wrote:
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> "Xeno" > wrote in message
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>> On 3/10/2015 9:29 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>> On Friday, October 2, 2015 at 8:39:31 PM UTC-4, Xeno wrote:
>>>> On 2/10/2015 8:51 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>>> On Thursday, October 1, 2015 at 6:47:28 PM UTC-4, John Doe wrote:
>>>>>> The idea that "low-fat" means you get an equivalent amount of badness
>>>>>> from other ingredients is just silly.
>>>>>
>>>>> Processed foods that are "low fat" often have additional amounts of
>>>>> sugar added to make them more palatable for the mass market.
>>>>
>>>> That's because fat is flavour. Remove fat and you have remaining
>>>> something that more tastes like cardboard. Other ingredients such as
>>>> salt, sugar, etc. are added in an attempt to restore the flavour. What
>>>> you really need to look for is a balanced diet of 'real food'.
>>>>>
>>>>>> I've been drinking nonfat milk for decades. There is nothing to
>>>>>> make up
>>>>>> for the lack of fat. I use it for anything I would normally use milk
>>>>>> for, like... Cereal, chocolate milk, straight milk, whatever. I no
>>>>>> longer desire fatty milk.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And as a result of reducing my fat intake and eating plenty of
>>>>>> fiber, my
>>>>>> cholesterol levels are excellent.
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>>>>> I eat a fair amount of fat, and my cholesterol levels are excellent.
>>>>> Good genetics has a lot to do with it.
>>>>
>>>> You can quickly destroy the benefits of good genetic by consuming a
>>>> poor
>>>> diet and/or lifestyle. We are not genetically programmed for our
>>>> current
>>>> 'western' diet and lifestyle and the effects, such as obesity, are now
>>>> beginning to show this quite clearly.
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>>> Well, when I say "a fair amount", it might be considered "not much" by
>>> others, since I try to control my calorie intake.
>>>
>>> A teaspoon (or so) of butter on my oatmeal in the morning
>>> A pint of 2% milk
>>> An ounce or two of cheese at lunch
>>> A tablespoon or two of olive oil at dinner
>>> Whatever fat comes along with chicken breast, farmed salmon or flank
>>> steak
>>> Some cocoa butter in an ounce of semi-sweet chocolate
>>>
>>> Of course, I eat fruits, vegetables and grains (whole and refined), too.
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>>> That's kind of a typical day. If I want to have a BLT with
>>> mayonnaise, I have it. A couple times a year, fried fish
>>> and French fries.
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>> Sounds like a reasonably balanced diet.
>>>
>>> It seems like everybody around me is on Lipitor or something.
>>>
>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>
>> Not this little black duck!
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> I don't even know what it is LOL
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Didn't you look it up? I did! I had no idea what it was either.

It is merely a brand name of a Statin, a Cholesterol lowering drug.

I knew of Statins, http://tinyurl.com/ab82ly6 just not Lipitor.

Now I know but since I don't need such things the knowledge is wasted on
me. Hope you find it useful. ;-)



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Xeno