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Unless you or anyone else knows of another little gem?
The effects of grapefruit pectin on patients at risk for coronary heart disease without altering diet or lifestyle.
Cerda JJ, Robbins FL, Burgin CW, Baumgartner TG, Rice RW.
SourceDepartment of Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville 32610.
Abstract
Dietary intake of cholesterol has been linked to coronary heart disease. The effect of grapefruit pectin (Citrus paradisi) on plasma cholesterol, triglycerides, very low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and the low-density lipoprotein:high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio was studied. The study design was a 16-week double-blind, crossover (placebo or pectin) using 27 human volunteers screened to be at medium to high risk for coronary heart disease due to hypercholesterolemia. The study did not interfere with the subjects' current diet or lifestyle. Grapefruit pectin supplementation decreased plasma cholesterol 7.6%, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol 10.8%, and the low-density lipoprotein:high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio 9.8%. The other plasma lipid fractions studied showed no significant differences. We conclude that a grapefruit pectin-supplemented diet, without change in lifestyle, can significantly reduce plasma cholesterol.
I suppose the only other option if this lipid disorder is a major player in CHD is to try and maintain HDL, LDL, VLDL and triglyceride levels through specific foods and exercise? Unless you or anyone else knows of another little gem?
freeform wrote:Owen, I take optimal vitamin C! Or does bowel tolerance not equal optimal anymore?
So, what you are saying is providing your total cholesterol is 180 (anyone for a game of darts?) it does not matter what makes up that figure or the lipid ratio? Please enlighten me.
The level of cholesterol in a persons blood varies inversely with the level of the ascorbic acid in the blood. When I learned of this I decided to perform an experiment on myself. My cholesterol level had been running at 240 units for several years. My doctor told me he could give me a drug to lower the cholesterol level but he was afraid of the damage that might be done by the drug. An experiment had been reported that a person's cholesterol level depended on the amount of white sugar ingested. With this information in mind, I decided to eliminate sucrose in my diet as much as I could in our culture while I arbitrarily set my intake of ascorbic acid at five gram per day. Much to my doctor's surprise, my cholesterol level fell from 240 units down to 180 units. I know of similar experiments with similar results. Also I have not had a cold since I have been taking the larger amount of ascorbic acid.
My condition? Just your common CHD. if you are saying that the only thing to take is Vitamin C then there is nothing I can learn from or contribute to this forum.
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If you are correct in your assumption that it doesn't matter what the ratio is, you just need it to be 180 then people are buying and taking high dose Niacin (with risk) for no reason. For a heart patient this is seriously bad news as my translation reads that the drug industry and the alternative therapy on the subject of cholesterol has not got a bloody clue and prescribing for it all the same.
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