Journal for 7 Dec 2006
I had an extremely frustrating day today. One issue was with my health, the other with my car.
I’ve been dealing with moderately high cholesterol for some time now, and four months ago my doctor had me go on a low cholesterol diet. Among other things, I essentially eliminated red meat, severely reduced my intake of all other animal products–quite frequently a bit of shredded mozerrella cheese was the only thing preventing me from going vegan for a day–and ate oatmeal like there was no tomorrow. Well, I had my follow-up test last week, and the results weren’t pretty: My bad cholesterol actually manged to climb 34 points whil