>>>Nutritional experts that I've talked to all say that your body produces the vast majority of the bad cholesterol in your system. Diet has very little impact upon that.
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>>You are talking to the wrong experts. Diet has EVERYTHING to do with it for the majority of normal metabolisms.
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>Obviously I beg to differ. Genetics is the largest single variable in the whole thing. And genetics determines whether or not your body produces high amounts of cholesterol or not. However, the politically correct health care industry realizes that we have no control over out genetics (yet) so they push diet and/or exercise (the next two leading factors). But since Americans are, by and large, lazy and don't want to have to work out and because fad diets have been popular for so many years - most of what you see in the news is geared toward diet.

Curtis;

I have read that genetics is very important in your cholesterol level. Choose your parents well. The "experts" do not argee on much or for long. Here are some recent numbers for cholesterol:
1. Should be 165
2. Should be 195 - reason - any higher causes health problems and lower causes aggressiveness.

A friend of mine just had a very serious heart problem. His mother and father died of heart trouble - high cholesterol was the cause. My friend has exercised for years and watches his diet. After this bout which almost cost him his life, his doctor said he had to take a different cholesterol medication. His cholesterol with medication was 165 - without around 300. Now, the doctor wants his cholesterol level to be at 115. My friend’s children also have the same problem and are on cholesterol medication. Diet and exercise can help some but not all in controlling cholesterol. Now if we could just get the "experts" to understand the problem and render a solution that applies rather than a solution.

Could this be like so many things in life - including programming - there is more than one way to solve the problem? First understand the problem - otherwise it is a generalization. One size does not fit all.

Tom