Are you suffering from hypertension?
Do you have family history of heart disease (mother or father)?

Cholesterol level greater than 240 mg/dL signals hypercholesterolemia (high cholesterol)
Triglyceride levels over 150 mg/dl are considered borderline-high.

No, my blood pressure are normal but have a stressful job in IT industry(Drink alot of filtered(Ground) coffee .

My mother are on lipetor the last 10 or so years but no heart diseases.
My father in fact has a very low blood pressure maybe hypodermic .

Your Triglycerides are WAY too high!

Mine are 90

My TOTAL cholesterol is 140, with HDL being incredibly high.

You NEED to modify your diet, and you really do need to exercise too. The biggest changes would be found in dietary modification!

Example : NOTHING FRIED, nada, zilch. I NEVER eat fried food, I consider it an off limits nasty food.

-No fried foods

-At LEAST 2 fruits a day

-No cookies, cakes, chips, or processed stuff, that will really lower your cholesterol AND triglycerides.

I eat this diet, and I am exceedingly healthy.

I've been to a dietitian and made some drastic changes in my diet the last two weeks.

I've retested my cholesterol(finger test) and here are my results.

Triglyceride = 84 mg/dl
Cholesterol = 134 mg/dl

HDL = 25 mg/dl
LDL = 92 mg/dl

My HDL also went down. Why?

Hi, Goga. My results were bad (I don't remember exactly but the Doctor immediately put me on cholesterol meds.

I made a change in diet, got hugely better results, and was allowed to stop the medication as it is no longer necessary. My new results:
total CHOLESTEROL 190
TRIGLYCERIDES 48
HDL CHOLESTEROL 65
LDL 115

Now, the main improvement is in much higher HDL compared to the first test. I don't exercise more (I just retired between the tests and so actually excercise less).

My diet change was to start eating Red Salmon like crazy. FishOil is a powerful omega3 acid source, and red salmon is one of the few highly concentrated sources. And wild caught Alaska canned salmon is just about the safest fish of all for lacking dangerous mercury. Tuna is not mercury safe (tuna and salmon are different sized fish). Almost all canned Salmon sold in America says Alaska & wild right on the label. It is however, expensive.

It took time to become accustomed to pasta with salmon (no ground beef, no fatty sauces from jars)..

Instead: powdered spaghetti sauce mixed with canned tomato sauce only (processed tomatoes are very very good for the heart, in fact better than unprocessed if only because they are more concentrated with actual tomato product).

Any salad we eat now is made with fat free dressing (Kraft Free).

Pasta (with red Salmon) 3 times a week (total per week: three 6-1/2 oz. cans ($10.00 USD!) of red salmon per week), thats worth about 5 servings.

Instead of a beef stew, we now eat roast chicken breast stew, red meat seems to have a bad reputation. Rare visits to McDonalds and classier restaurants: fish and/or poultry. Roast turkey is an American favorite.

Britain and Scandinavia are the fishing capitals of the world, perhaps suitable fish are available more cheaply there (Japanese eat lots of fish, hence their low heart attack rates, ditto for the Inuits (Esquimoes).

helo im just new here in your forum and im very much curious on the do's and donts in avoiding cholesterol??