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Originally Posted by Katydid77
He eats a lot of soup (mostly clam chowder/chicken noodle) .. . for a good part of that time, he was eating the eggs twice a day, and then like one Little Debbie snack cake per day.
He drinks water and sweet iced tea. He was having a lot of teeth trouble, so no hard or crunchy foods. Since then, he has had all his top teeth taken out (in prep for dentures) so he is still on soft foods.
His diet is not 'clean', and he does eat too many sweets, but I wouldn't have thought of it as high in cholesterol.
Like I said, I am not trying to blame the eggs, but the doctors and dietitians all jumped on that the moment we brought them his 'list of regular foods'
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one could easily blame the sodium intake in the soups as the precursor to high cholesterol. Or, if he's eating clam chowder, cream soups may or may not contain trans fats... depending on how much their processed....
other things the doctors skipped over:
the fact that fructose has been shown to raise cholesterol for people, or, the lack of fiber in the diet.
not that any one of these things directly caused high blood cholesterol levels in your dad. I'm just pointing out the fact that there are a lot of things in his diet that could have been targeted by his doctors, but weren't.
I still don't understand why eggs still get a bad rap from doctors. One of the most perfect foods there is.