Funnily, I'm kind of the opposite story -- mid-40s and fairly athletic. I run around 14 miles every other day at sub 7 pace, play other sports, and am generally in good shape and have been my whole life. My diet is mostly vegetarian without much alcohol. Trying to do everything right to live a healthy lifestyle, but my cholesterol was terrible... LDL around 240.
My doctor chalked it up to bad luck with genes. After a few months on a statin it was at 90. Since I didn't have much room to change lifestyle, I'm very thankful for drugs!
edit: form those disagreeing, please let me know the flaw in my statement.
> White sugar (and some brown sugar) produced from sugar cane may be refined using bone char by a few sugar cane refiners.[2] For this reason white sugar from sugar cane may not be vegan. Beet sugar has never been processed with bone char and is vegan.
>White sugar (and some brown sugar) produced from sugar cane may be refined using bone char by a few sugar cane refiners.[2] For this reason white sugar from sugar cane may not be vegan. Beet sugar has never been processed with bone char and is vegan.[3]
which pretty definitively say that it's only cane sugar that might be processed that way, and beet sugar is "never" processed that way.
Am I wrong to read that to say that _some_ white sugar is vegan?
EDIT: Oh, I see the confusion. I didn't mean any beet sugar was processed that way. I only meant to dispute the claim further up that white sugar is not vegan.
Two years ago, I started dating a vegan and slowly became vegan myself and I now eat a plant based diet.
Between the exercise and the diet, my cholesterol numbers have totally turned around. My doctor commented last month at my physical that she's never seen anybody turn their cholesterol around like that without drugs.