Just found out my cholesterol and triglycerides are too high

It's probably all of those 'copper cut' noodles you've been eating.

Ho to the health and fitness board. There's a poster lsu77 or something like that. He is a good man to talk to about diets

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Switching to brown rice.

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Don’t. You can stick with white rice, just cut down on the amount that you eat.

Don’t eat brown rice and think you’re doing anything. Might as well eat the shite you actually want.

You could also eat beef and beef fat and eggs everyday for a year and your levels will either be lower or the same , likely better.

Dietary cholesterol has little impact on your numbers. A strong argument could be made that the carbs inflame your system and cause the problems. So again, don’t eat shitty arse brown rice.

Add Fiber to your diet around 20 grams a day

You don’t have to eat oatmeal. Giving up carbs is more important than giving up fats. And you need to get on meds. A statin for cholesterol and another for triglycerides. This is what I did in 2012 when I got stents for blockages and haven’t had a problem since. Low fat diets don’t work…..low carbs and sugars is the way to go. This is what my doctor put me on. Have bacon and eggs for breakfast.

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Anything else y'all do that might help save me from eating oatmeal for an entire year?

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Largely depends on family history and age. My family has shite ton of heart disease and high BP in conjunction with high cholesterol and triglycerides. Several have dieted and taken vitamins that some research shows to help, but it did not help. A few years ago I myself dieted for over 6 months and exercised and lost 20 pounds and kept it off while taking fish oil, red yeast rice, CoQu-10, amongst other shite and my levels stayed the exact same for my next labs. The only thing that has helped is medicine from my cardiologist. 3 years later I'm at same Cardiology Institute of the South but my last appointment was with a new Doc since my old one left, new Doc recommended Fish & vegetables only and even stressed less fish the better. Also wants me to get under 200 pounds, but I weighed 195 graduating high school 20 years ago.
My brother lost 100 pounds and is still on meds.

All that said, absolutely diet as best you can and exercise to be as healthy as you can. But I would temper expectations on how much it will affect your labs.

Eat almonds every day, about 1/3 cup