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Your diet change has made very dramatic improvements for you. I don't mean to pry but what was your old diet like before? Was it heavily meat-based? Was it mainly a SAD diet ("Standard American Diet")?

For me I had always eaten "normal" - meat, grains (whole and refined), lots of vegis and fruits. This "balanced" diet worked for me until about 5 years ago. As I get closer to menopause, I noticed the weight was creeping up on me and my lipid panels just got a little worse every year. I personally don't think total cholesterol or LDL are really the demons that they made them out to be but I tend to believe triglycerides is an independent indicator for heart health. So I am happy I got it down. Without meds. My next step is to refine the process and maybe try to optimize it.  

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• 谢谢分享 -欲千北- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/14/2014 postreply 11:47:02

• Mine was not the SAD diet either. (A great acronym, by the way.) -7grizzly- ♀ (499 bytes) () 08/14/2014 postreply 12:04:17

• I read Pollan's books too -Lily168- ♀ (516 bytes) () 08/14/2014 postreply 13:41:43

• It's tempting, isn't it? -7grizzly- ♀ (368 bytes) () 08/14/2014 postreply 14:05:28

• No I am just dreaming when I look at these beautiful books -Lily168- ♀ (85 bytes) () 08/14/2014 postreply 16:06:28

• Yes. And now it's my job to get my son to read him ;-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/14/2014 postreply 14:14:48