For remind: All these questions correspond to the doubts and the various interrogations which were mine (the patient) during the first week of diet - without medicine - against cholesterol.



Question 7:

The margarine is often presented like an anti-cholesterol food. There are even on the television commercial spots. What do you think about it?

Doctor answer: A margarine is a mixture of fat and water:

- if it is in facts an animal fat, it is bad for the cholesterol,

- if it is a vegetable fat, it is good for cholesterol.

New margarine’s enriched in vegetable sterols recently appeared on the market. They are supposed causing a drop in bad cholesterol.

There are several. Some can be used to paste on your piece of bread, others for cooking.

Caution: all margarine’s containing animal fat MUST BE AVOIDED. For more information on the good margarine’s please consult my previous article:

Question 8:

To be in form, it is necessary to make some exercise. Which sports or which exercises then Can I do at my age (this patient is 55 years old!)?

Doctor answer: I dissuade you the sport recognized as violent: tennis, squash...

On the other hand, I highly recommend to you calmer and very beneficial activities like the jogging, swimming, the golf, the bicycle, without forgetting the walking.

Question 9:

If I am very hungry after a physical exercise or a competition of bridge, then can I eat as much as I wish?

Doctor answer: Yes, of course, bus your died is not quantitative. I especially did not ask you to weigh your food, but only to eliminate those which are harmful.

It is necessary to eat with its hunger and to eat well.

Question 10:

I am invited to a dinner by friends. Then can I be an appreciated guest while continuing my diet?

Doctor answer: If you are invited by friends:

- avoids the aperitifs cakes, replaces them by green olives or raw vegetables,

- consumes the dishes while abstaining from taking some sauce,

- do not eat butter,

- and think of making the dead end on the cheese plate.

If you are invited to the restaurant, it will be easier. You will be able indeed to start with raw vegetables which you will season yourself with olive oil, then, to take a roasted fish for example and to finish with fruits.

Question 11:

However, is it possible to make an extra from time to time?

Doctor answer: You can benefit from some exceptional occasions - birthday, marriage, New Year's Eve or a nice meal in restaurant classified in a gastronomical guide - to blow a little bit!

But be carefully! You must immediately return on the right way. Never spend a whole day without following your diet.

Question 12:

Precisely, I reserved a long time in advance a table in very famous three-star restaurant Michelin in the south of France. Is this reasonable?

Doctor answer: You really have all the chances! This restaurant is in the south of France and this Mediterranean cuisine containing fish, fruit and vegetable, olive oil is excellent for your diet. Therefore, you risks not large thing.

It would not be the same in a restaurant of Alsace, even of exceptional quality!

Questions 13:

Is there a relationship between tobacco and cholesterol?

Doctor answer: There you tackle a very important problem but which arises in other words. The tobacco does not modify the cholesterol level but it represents a major cardiovascular risk.

Let us not go there by thirty-six ways: to smoke is harmful!

Currently, thanks to the contributions of the patch’s of acupuncture and with a rigorous medical follow-up, stop to smoke is certainly easier.

The success in this company depends on two essential factors: THE MOTIVATION AND WILL.

Comment of the patient (a great champion of bridge): I stopped smoking on March 15, 1976. It is during a discussion with one of my partner of bridge on the effects of the tobacco, in particular on the loss of memory, which I took this important decision.

I had thought of this possibility for a certain time, but I had not made the decision yet to throw my cigarettes.

Comment of the doctor: To stop smoking is more difficult than to make a diet because there is only one way to succeed, never start it again. Indeed, the only fact of smoking a cigarette makes plunging again, whereas a meal without diet does not prevent from finishing with the cholesterol.