hey just thought I would show you a really interesting post which I recently read on another forum about fats and cholesterol.
"I did a search for coronary heart disease and CF, and though I found many sites that listed both diseases, I could not in the time available find one that referred to them in combination. The simple fact is that very few pwcf have lived long enough for CHD to show itself.
This brings up a rather harsh point. My generation of PWCF (I am 43) are almost extinct - for many reasons, but a big one of them was the necessity of having a low-fat diet. (There were no decent enzyme capsules at the time.) You can protect against CF, or you can run scared of CHD - and the CF will kill far sooner than CHD. The high-energy, high-fat diet is too important a tool in care of CF to compromise it! Pwcf who have weight at the 75th centile will have better lung function, fewer infectious episodes, and recover their lung function faster and more fully following infections than those at the 50th; and do much better than those at the 25th.
Many pwcf have remarkably, sometimes dangerously low cholesterol levels, to the point where some of us have difficulty manufacturing essential steroid hormones - and that includes the sex hormones, many growth and development hormones, the entire range of anti-inflammatory and regulatory hormones produced by the kidneys and adrenal glands; and many others.
And those who have poor lung function can suffer an even more serious heart problem than CHD: Cor Pulmonale - a condition where the part of the heart that pumps blood through the lungs starts to give out due to the back pressure caused by the chronic lung inflammation. At the same time, the rising blood pressure causes the lungs to harden further, causing more back pressure in a slow, descending spiral.
CF does not protect against other diseases. (Case in point - I suffered a non-CHD heart problem eleven years ago. It may have been either due to viral infection or childhood malnutrition or a combination of the two. The doctors didn't want to do a biopsy to determine the cause as the treatment is the same!)
However: The immune systems of pwcf are highly overactive, and the immune system is GREEDY for fats.
Also, there is increasing evidence that coronary heart disease is at least as likely to be due to silent bacterial infection as it is to bad cholesterol levels. The bacteria thought to be involved are all highly sensitive to the sorts of antibiotics that pwcf are stuffed with from infancy.
So this may actually be a case where having CF indirectly protects?
Finally, babies under 5 burn fat far faster than an adult. Indeed, at rest a two-year-old's growing brain burns AS MUCH fat as an adult's entire resting body. And that's the brain alone, the rest of the body is also greedy for fat. Healthy eating for a toddler is not the same as that for an adult."
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I just thought it was an interesting (well researched) opinion, incase that helps aleviate some of the worry people have about high fat diets <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
And best of luck to you, you are obviously a very caring parent who is searching for answers to do the best for your child...let your child live a full, active and happy life, thats about all the advice I can give <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">