Cancer Survivor, writing about Health and Fitness as you age

My Cholesterol Numbers When last I blogged about diet I was very optimistic about impacting my vitiligo with my new diet, and talked about it here .  However, on a recent trip to the doctor, I've realized I have to defer working on my vitiligo yet again for a bit. Last year, my cholesterol was high, so I made some dietary changes (reduced the red meat, cut the amount of eggs, etc.). My cholesterol dropped 33 points. For the last 3 months I've made even more changes. I've cut dairy, bread and pasta and I've had maybe 3 servings of cheese and red meat in as many months, increased fish and lean quality meat; gave up added sugar so dessert was fresh or dried fruit. However, despite all of this a recent retest showed my cholesterol has dropped only 2 more points and is still high. I don't often vent and rant, but I feel defeated. I even gave up chocolate, 85% (cocoa) dark chocolate!  It took a lot out of me to be disciplined about this, so after I got the results, ...