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[quote=Anonymous]My husband and I are the kind of people who have outrun the fork for all our lives but may not be as healthy as we look.

As for me, I have high LDL cholesterol, though it is likely hereditary since my father had it and he was never overweight and his diet was fairly decent. My triglycerides are low, a1c and glucose are normal, everything else normal. DH has borderline high cholesterol, but his a1c blood sugar has been most heading in the wrong direction and is now borderline prediabetic at 5.7 (mine is 5.0 for comparison).

We are both thin and athletic (me, 5'5 120lb, him, 5'9 145 lb), very active, and eat voraciously. I'm definitely more health conscious than he is, though I always thought I had a sweet tooth (love chocolate and desserts and things), and I'm not that into cheese/cream/fatty meats or the things that normally associate with high cholesterol. DH just eats a lot, period, and the culprit with him is he loves nasty sugary sodas.

So if I'm the cook, and I love cooking, what would be the best kind of diet for the both of us? Neither of us are particularly interested in being vegetarian or vegan. He doesn't tolerate most dairy. I'm hesitant to give up meat, he likes some fish but not others, and we already don't drink that much alcohol. What would you suggest given our blood work results but also the fact that we are very active, and don't have any weight to lose. We're in our mid 40s if that matters. [/quote]

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