I understand where your coming from but I believe your coming on a little strong. I am a smoker, but I have no kids. The way you could have said it was if you want to smoke leave the room or go outside and smoke. I also never heard of if you quit smoking you would lower your colesterol. Ciggs have no fat in them lol.
Fat, with the exception of trans fat, does nothing to your blood cholesterol levels.
Also, contrary to popular belief, eating cholesterol itself (unless it is damaged like in spray dried milk or eggs) also does nothing to your blood cholesterol levels. Eating cholesterol is actually not at all bad for you, and if people would actually take a look at the studies they've done to "prove" that, they'd see what I'm talking about.
Cholesterol isn't about how much fat or cholesterol you put into your body, it's a symptom (not a cause) of poor heart health. Smoking cigarettes is bad for your heart, eating unnatural foods is bad for your heart, not exercising is bad for your heart, and so they all raise your blood cholesterol levels.
A lot of times it's not what you eat/don't eat, etc., but heredity. Cholesterol (low or high) has it's results in family heredity, or that high Cholesterol runs in your family. In your own family gene pool. Had one of the best heart Doc's in California tell me that.
Not that we can smoke, eat badly, and sit on our cans, because low Cholesterol is in our family tree. There's other contributing factors. My Cholesterol is normal, but my Triglycerides (spelled wrong) are triple what they should be. I don't smoke, I'm on the blood diet, and seem to acquire enough exercise (could always use more). However, I'm still having to take meds. for the Triglycerides. Go figure.
It's generally not as much a problem with heredity, but yeah, it can be.
The main point I'm trying to make it that cholesterol isn't risen by eating meat and stuff like people think it is. If we could just realize faster what "research" is biased or not, we would know a lot more about.. well, everything. I mean, come on, in one of the studies they force fed rabbits with meat until they had heart attacks and died. Rabbits bodies are not all that similar to ours, and they are not programmed to digest cholesterol, like ours are. So they killed a bunch of rabbits in the name of science but didn't even think it through first.
As far as what science does to find out who/what/when, really doesn't concern me. Their use of animals in their testing is what they do. They get funding to do it, so.... Science has made some good contributions to society and on the other hand...their all wet.
Heredity plays a BIG part of your Cholesterol. When the Doc told me that, I began to do extensive research. Especially since a part of
my Cholesterol is suffering. I want to know what and why. He is correct. That's why the new med. products coming out are to treat food
and family because of the link to heredity.
I've done extensive research on the blood diet (Eat Right 4 Your Type). It's not really a diet, but a change in your eating habits for life. It's based on your blood type, and gene typing. We have different blood types, and they each have different enzymes and ways that break down our food. It also determines how much stomach acid you have to satisfactorily break down food also, and how your blood takes the nutrients, fat, fiber, etc., distributing them throughout your body. What I can eat, may be like eating poison for you, and visa versa. I've been following this for about 9 months, and have lost 68 Lbs. so far without trying. I'm almost to my ideal weight without doing anything different except change what I eat. In this study, there are "Highly Beneficial" foods, "Normal Foods" (won't hurt you, but provide fuel), and "Forbidden Foods", according to your blood type.
Gene typing goes even further into what you can put into your body. I'm looking into that next. This program is not cheap, but works, and makes sense. Dr. Adamo and his staff have developed this over many many years. The food pyramid that the Gov't puts out is not correct. There is no "one size fits all" or a cookie cutter way for everyone. Because we are all different with different genetics, blood, nationalities, etc. Also, you could be taking the wrong vitamins according to your blood type. Example: Type "O's" don't need much Vitamin A at all. Dr. Adamo has developed Vitamin categories that are actually based on the separate blood types. Get the checkbook out because they are not cheap, but boy do they work.
I'm an "O" type, and can eat a lot of meat. Some of the other types have to watch their meat intake, or can only eat certain types of meat. Some do well on wheat, while my blood type does not break down wheat and gluten very well.
The "Fad" diets don't work because you put the pounds right back on. I will always eat what I should according to my blood type and genetics now. I'm eating myself back to health. We really are what we eat.
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Topic: lower ur bad cholestrol by quitting smoking (Read 3088 times)
December 07, 2010, 10:19:09 pm
