Cholesterol Counters

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Those with genetic or stubborn high cholesterol wanting to lower it with a low-fat raw vegan lifestlye

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Conversion guide

Question: How Do You Convert Between Cholesterol Measurements?

Answer: Cholesterol measurements are usually displayed in one of two ways on a laboratory report: in mg/dL or mmol/L. The mg/dL measurement is more commonly seen in the US, whereas cholesterol readings in mmol/L are mostly used in other countries.

However, converting between these two measurements may be important –- especially if you want to compare your numbers to those in a guideline or other document where the measurements are listed differently. So, if you want to learn how to convert your LDL or HDL cholesterol levels from mg/dL to mmol/L, or vice versa, you can follow these simple steps:

Converting mg/dL to mmol/L:

To convert your LDL or HDL cholesterol number from mg/dL to mmol/L, you should multiply the number by 0.0259. For example, if your LDL cholesterol level was 200 mg/dL, you can convert it to mmol/L by performing this calculation:
200 mg/dL x 0.0259 = 5.18 mmol/L

Converting mmol/L to mg/dL:

To convert your LDL or HDL cholesterol levels from mmol/L to mg/dL, you can divide the number given in mmol/L by 0.0259. An example of this conversion would be if you had an LDL cholesterol level of 4.8 mmol/L and wish to convert it to mg/dL:

4.8 mmol/L ÷ 0.0259 = 185 mg/dL

http://cholesterol.about.com/od/yourresults/f/cholesterolconversion.h

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Comment by Rick on November 1, 2012 at 4:27am: Well it's time for my 6 month Dr. check-up next week. I had my blood drawn today to prepare. I've been strictly 80/10/10 for a month now. I wonder how my cholesterol numbers will look? My goal is to stop the meds for it. I wonder if anyone has had any experience with this?

Comment by Sweetfruitlover on June 6, 2012 at 1:10am: Hi Annette and FC! Nice to see some activity in our group. I'm very curious to check my cholesterol this summer. I have a genetic tendency towards high cholesterol (brother's was 400 before he went on lipator, mine was 300 in my 30's). Then I ate a Dr. Fuhrman-style diet and it dropped to 174, so I figured low fat vegan was the way and I didn't check again until over two years on 811rv - and then it was 246! Yikes. However, the next summer (a year later) it was 189. I'm hoping this is a long-term trend and that I was clearing old deposits out, but a third reading this summer will tell a lot. I'll definitely post here when I check. If fruit doesn't work for me, I might return to cooked starches, but I feel better eating this way, so I hope it's okay for me.

Comment by Fruit Curls on June 3, 2012 at 8:30am: Hi Anette! Welcome - thanks for contributing to this group! I am not 100% raw, but mainly following McDougall/Essylstein which is still low-fat plant based. But I'm the same as you, also lost my own father to a heart attack when he was only 39 - not a lot known about cholesterol back then in the 70's and they didn't even have statins back then. I was also put on statins but went off them due to side effects. There are a lot of discussions on the John McDougall forum about people lowering their levels from 300's to under 150 being 100% on the diet, so there is hope! The best way is to obviously try 80/10/10 RV for 30 days and retest. And it may vary from person to person whether 100% raw works better or part-raw, part-McDougall. But the low-fat zero animal products, zero oil is definitely key.

Comment by Mini Rawvegan on March 28, 2011 at 12:22am: My cholesterol has moved from 7.5 to 4.8. You should kick me out of this group.

Comment by Julie Groenewald on March 27, 2011 at 11:55pm: Hey Fruit Curls thanks for the invitation to this group :+)

Since moving over to the fruitarian diet in June 2009 my cholesterol moved down from 5.8 to 4.6 already :+)

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Comment by Fruit Curls on August 1, 2010 at 2:53am: Are statins analogues of vitamin D?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16815382?ordinalpos=1&itool=...

Comment by Fruit Curls on August 1, 2010 at 2:27am: Study on statins raising vitamin D levels.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2075568/

Comment by Fruit Curls on July 20, 2010 at 6:17am: sfl thanks for the info on the D. Makes me wonder if my levels have been lower in the summer, when I'm outside longer. I am still using the vegan dha and a supp with red rice yeast & niacin. I also am due to get myself tested.

Comment by Liam G on July 17, 2010 at 4:18pm: In Doug Grahams book (801010). He says cholesterol plays an important in Vitamin D production. I think

Comment by Sweetfruitlover on July 8, 2010 at 3:30pm: I just spoke with Alan Goldhammer today. He doesn't think I'm clearing out fats either since I didn't just lose weight or something like that (I finished losing weight a year and a half ago). He feels it's probably the vitamin D deficiency - he sounded pretty certain when he heard all the details of my situation.

I made an appointment with Dr. Michael Klapper (also at the True North Institute where AG works) and I'll see what he has to say too, and let you all know.