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From:	Dan (67.174.225.108)
Subject:	Triglycerides & carbohydrates
Date:	December 6, 2009 at 2:41 pm PST

Hi Jeff,
Background, I'm a vegan who eats no refined foods and low salt. I got a
comprehensive blood test back and overall it looks great, however Triglycerides
are at 189 (<150 is considered optimum) and HDL chloesterol is 30 (> 40
optimum), with everything else looking good (blood potassium is a bit high too).

It seems that a high carbohydrate diet can elevate triglycerides, which mine
certainly is. Also I have somewhat of a sweet tooth and hit the raisins and all
fruit jams, so I'm getting a lot of fruit sugars generally.

Any thoughts on these numbers, and carbohydrate intake in general? Thanks
so much.

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