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If you drink more than 2-3 *normal* drinks a day, it can effect your cholesterol. Since bad cholesterol is produced in your liver, elevating your liver functions by drinking can increase cholesterol production. Also, make sure you're eating foods lower in cholesterol, and eat more frequently. Eating very little and drinking more than one alcoholic beverage a day is very unhealthy. Smaller, healthy meals have significant benefits. If you're eating a lot of one specific kind of food, you'll want to check into what the cholesterol content of it is. Foods like (as the website I list says) "Biscuits, cakes, pastries, red meat, hard cheese, butter and foods containing coconut or palm oil" have a lot of saturated fats. Also make sure to include fiber and general plant matter into your diet. Eating infrequently will actually hurt your cholesterol, since your body needs certain things to keep cholesterol in check, and I'm guessing that this, along with alcohol, is causing your high cholesterol.

I all so was taking Lipitor for cholesterol, but then my doctor switched me to Caduet. A combination Cholesterol and High Blood Pressure medication, for several years. I have not experienced any more than normal short term memory loss. My long term memory is just find. Now because of financial and no medical I can not afford to take that medication. and still see no change. I have also heard on the news within the last month or so that the cholesterol medications do not give appreciably any major cholesterol lowering capabilities to warrant the taking of these drugs. And it is not a life or death situation. They feel it is just a ruse by the pharmaceutical company's to push these drugs on people in order to make themselves more money. Diet and exercise will do the same thing and better. And you can keep the money in your pocketbook.