"Xeno" > wrote in message
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> On 3/10/2015 10:44 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>>
>>
>> "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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Sounds like a reasonably balanced diet.
>>>>
>>>> It seems like everybody around me is on Lipitor or something.
>>>>
>>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>>
>>> Not this little black duck!
>>>
>>
>> I don't even know what it is LOL
>>
> 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. ;-)

Thanks but no, I wasn't particularly interested I thought it was some
kind of slimming pill

As for statins! Wouldn't ever touch those.

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