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Thread: High LDL

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04-10-2008, 02:02 PM

xMenace

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I am a: Type 1

Join Date: Jun 2006

Location: Rothesay, New Brunswick Canada, eh

Posts: 6,225

Get those sugars down to sub-6 stat!

The betes is one of the highest cardio risk factors for good reason. Sugar scrapes the endothelial lining of artieries causing plaque to build much more easily. Sugar slows down blood flow and hardens the outside wall of arteries increasing blood pressure. We also tend to have smaller blood vessels which exacerbates things even more.

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