misc Haven t the AMA guidelines been updated to include minium HDL levels of 40 mg dl of serum blood I love joe harry frederick thompson Since it is likely that many people will come to this page because they have high cholesterol is it reasonable to include a checklist for lowering cholesterol e g The American Heart Association suggests the following steps to reduce cholesterol levels Watch your caloric intake by eating a wide variety of foods low in saturated fat and cholesterol Eat at least five servings of fruits and vegetables every day Eat six or more servings of cereals breads pasta and other whole grain products Eat fish poultry without skin and leaner cuts of meat instead of fatty ones Eat nonfat or 1 milk dairy products rather than whole milk dairy products Enjoy 30 60 minutes of vigorous activities on most or all days of the week Maintain a healthy weight These 7 points are copied verbatim from a page linked from the American Heart Association page that this article already links to In theory people can find it but only if they follow the external link scroll to the bottom and follow the next link Perhaps we can t include these for copyright reasons even though it is fully attributed and not very large I m not sure of the limits on fair use 18 54 12 Nov 2003 UTC Total cholesterol to any other cholesterol ratio is unit less so why is it expressed in mg dl This needs clarification 21 32 1 Jan 2004 UTC The quantity of cholesterol in foods is clearly wrong Egg yolks can t have cholesterol 1234 mg g as that would be more than 100 cholesterol A quick search on the internet implies that this is off by a factor of 100 but I have no good data source I can cite The Great Cholesterol Con book Source http content 436962 URL blacklisted This book talks about a Cholesterol conspiracy theory That is why it is published at a vanity publisher T lk Units com cholesterol cholesterol units html This page gives conversion to mmol L data How about we mention the European units as well T lk 19 59 15 Apr 2004 UTC From that page mmol L mg dL 38 67 mg dL mmol L 38 67 for future reference as I don t have time to check the article at the moment As it stands parts are pretty useless to people living in the UK Europe or Australia Is there a standard I would ve thought SI units would be preferred but I suppose that mg dL is still very prevalent in the literature so perhaps it would make sense to just follow each measure with the mmol L in parentheses Lets be consistent anyway Cholesterol intake On suggestion this has been removed from the Rosuvastatin article Roughly 50 of the body s cholesterol is derived from dietary sources while the remaining 50 is from this de novo synthesis King Michael W Ph D October 7 2004 Biosynthesis of Cholesterol from the Medical Biochemistry Page hosted by Indiana State University Retrieved 2005 03 20 NOTE This is a secondary source yet on the same page Normal healthy adults synthesize cholesterol at a rate of approximately 1 g day and consume approximately 0 3 g day Is 23 roughly 50 or is there something else going on here Furthermore the page indicates that synthesis varies to maintain a relatively constant level of cholesterol in the body 150 200 mg dL indicating that changes in dietary cholesterol should have a minor effect on serum cholesterol i e that cholesterol consumption is a non issue I ve seen mention of similar effects in other lit reviews Evidence suggests to me that dietary cholesterol should only be mentioned as to the effect that it has to reduce synthesis 18 28 28 June 2006 UTC