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[PeakT]

You know it's amazing when you look at what you've eaten:  it almost seems carefully designed to accelerate heart disease.  Seriously, if you sat a bunch of researchers down in a room and asked them  to come up with a diet that would get some heart attack or stroke as far as possible, it's really the typical American diet. 

By the way, I'm with you on a high fat meal.  If I eat enough fat, I feel like someone sucker punched me in the solar plexus.

[kcwebguy]

I am so thankful for this forum........I have learned so much!!!!!

I echo that sentiment. I feel like the scales are slowly being ripped off of my eyes. Many thanks to PeakT and the forum participants and to doctors that take the time and effort to educate themselves further on the matter and attempt to treat their patients in the right ways.

The American Diet is all about profits! I'll stop there... (as he eyes the soapbox in the corner of the room)

[itsme]

I met with the gastro doc about my liver, and he concluded that I have metabolic syndrome and a fatty liver.  My liver enzymes are still high, and I have been off the statin for 2 weeks.  My fasting blood sugar was 118.  All of my other blood tests were normal.  One thing I have changed in the last few days is my cpap mask.  The one I had been using was waking me up because it was leaking air around the facial seal.  I have been trying out the nasal pillow type of cpap, and it is doing much better than the full face mask.  There could possible be a link between my tiredness, my high sugar levels, my low T levels, and my high cholesterol with my sleep patterns.  Waking up many times during the night to fix my cpap mask could be ruining my deep sleep patterns.  I have been waking up more alert over the past week since switching my mask to the nasal pillow type. 

[PeakT]

I am so thankful for this forum........I have learned so much!!!!!

I echo that sentiment. I feel like the scales are slowly being ripped off of my eyes. Many thanks to PeakT and the forum participants and to doctors that take the time and effort to educate themselves further on the matter and attempt to treat their patients in the right ways.

The American Diet is all about profits! I'll stop there... (as he eyes the soapbox in the corner of the room)

Thx.  Much appreciated.  You know, though, we're all to blame though.  They just sell what we'll buy.  The food processors and fast food restaurants are simply our legal crack dealers...