Grant wrote:Sounds like a good plan! We all need to die of something. Who wants to be the only old guy in the hospital at age 90 dying of "nothing".

I cannot tell you how many times I have used that exact phrase, in just that exact manner. Who'd we steal that from?

Hehe....that one has been in my father's top 10 list of favorite expressions for some time and is where I picked it up.

Ironically (or appropriately) he is currently one of those older people that is dying of pretty well everything (diabetes, heart disease, etc etc.) caused by a life of extreme excess of living well and partying hard.

It's funny though, my mother always tested HORRIBLE for blood test results (she died of accidental causes)....extremely high cholesteral, trigs etc, and yet was still long distance walking daily, cross-country skiing in winter etc. She had more energy and lung capacity than anyone I knew half her age. She ate a very healthy diet.

My father, who has all the diseases and symptoms of what you would think someone with horrible blood numbers would have, to this day, still tests perfectly and healthy. No cholesterol, trig problems etc, yet his arteries have been clogging up for years. Eats horrible fatty foods, yet his blood tests would never show it.

Well, this thread is a beast...but I have one more datapoint that should be rightly ignored because it is just that - a single datapoint. My dad had/has high cholesterol despite a good diet, so he quit his two cups/day for a month (nylon or metal filter -not sure), and he saw no change in his cholesterol. I figure i'll do the same one day. Quitting coffee for a month shouldn't be that difficult. (I'm actually surprised I haven't developed addictive habit patterns, but i sometimes go a week or so without drinking coffee just because "I forget". Although i'm currently on about 3-4 shots a day).

The test for cholesterol can be greatly affected with slight variations in your eating habits the day before the test.

For instance if you eat a large chunk of French Brie Cheese the night before and don't go in the morning of fasting from 8pm the night before you will have a greatly different result than if you don't eat any fats the day before and go in fasting from 8pm the night before.

Try it and see.....

also Skim free milk has so little percentage of fat I would find it hard to believe it could greatly alter your overall numbers

once again, not a doctor, far from it

Just surfing by and noticed the comment about soy milk. I read a medical paper recently that suggested soy is Bad for men. Apparently there's stuff in it that mimicks estrogen in the human body and mucks up the male system. Just a random guy posting in a random place on the internet, so do your own research but submitted for your consideration. (Hey - we coffee people have to stick together, eh?)

Cheers!

There was an article in Men's Health last month that also states that soy is bad for men. Needless to say, I have cut out tofu from my diet!

There are certain foods to avoid, of course, but they vary for the individual. For me, having never seen udders on a soy bean . . .

Then again, I've long believed that the five basic food groups consist, in random order, of chocolate, coffee, garlic, cheese, and wine.

Cheers,
Jason

drdna wrote:I don't recall the old values exactly, but they have always been very regular from year to year, roughly:
total: 180, LDL: 100, HDL: 60, trig: 120 and now this has changed to:
total: 238, LDL: 168, HDL: 54, trig: 130
So basically a large jump in LDL after increasing my consumption of espresso.

I think you have not told us how many espressos you drink daily.Have you?
As for me,I drink two 14g doubles daily.
And about the statins,my cardiologist,who took me in statins,told me that with statins,people stopped dying from heart attacks.
I wish you all good health,and great espresso too.

Well my local Roaster told me that her Herbologiste from Viet Nam recommends soaking Green Coffee beans overnight then making a TEA with it as a Oriental remedy for lowering Cholesterol

Hmmmmmm

Great thread! But there's something missing. Let's say that your cholesterol and heart health issues worry you enough that you filter your espresso shots, as I now do.

Does anyone have any suggestion for types of roasts or preparation that will return some of the robust flavor to espresso that's now being filtered? Otherwise, am I limited to something that tastes like it came through an Illy pod? Am able to get excellent flavor with drip filter coffee but like my espresso!