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Originally Posted by suesheboy LOL at the PHP. I have a seriously underweight vegan friend who cholesterol is through the roof. He is in his 70's, been a vegan form more than 30 years and does at least 5 miles a day on foot. He just has a shitty body.

His liver functions at regulating cholesterol are out of whack ...
Statins can help but they can affect liver functions negatively sometimes -- at 70 if he has had no health problems he may be the exception to the rule.

Also a lot depends on the ratio and sum of the LDL and HDL Cholesterol. If the Total Cholesterol is real high like

Your Total Cholesterol of 293 is HIGH RISK
Your LDL of 110 is NEAR OPTIMAL
Your HDL of 160 is OPTIMAL
Your Triglyceride level of 115 is NORMAL
RATIOS:
Your Total Cholesterol/HDL ratio is: 1.72 - (preferably under 5.0, ideally under 3.5) IDEAL
Your HDL/LDL ratio is: 1.455 - (preferably over 0.3, ideally over 0.4) IDEAL
Your triglycerides/HDL ratio is: 0.156 - (preferably under 4, ideally under 2)
http://www.hughcalc.org/chol.php

I am assuming that Vegan means no animal products -- fish, eggs or milk.