If, while on the Liberation Diet, you are working with a doctor who is checking your blood cholesterol levels often, you may expect an increase as you lose weight, and may not begin to see a marked decrease until well after you have lost the excess weight. Keep in mind that the unhealthy cholesterol built up in the body by eating processed food and chemicals is more difficult and takes longer for the body to eliminate than does fat. The blood cholesterol will begin to drop a few weeks after weight loss stops.
Give yourself time. It is not only in the arteries that unhealthy fatty deposits have been made, but in all areas of the body. Food materials readily change into durable (shelf-life?) non-food forms when processed. When absorbed in the bloodstream and circulated, it accumulates mostly in the artery walls, joint cartilage, and fibrous parts of the body because these have a dense structure and poor blood supply so that the material is filtered and trapped inside, clumping together, and deposits tend to form in certain spots. The body has the ability to rid itself of this very slowly, but the unhealthy materials have been eaten over time faster than the deposits can be removed. Over time it of course builds up to a greater and greater extent, making us older than our years, dulling us and diminishing vitality before any sign of disease appears.1
Often the body regains its vigor within weeks of eating fresh, real food. While following the Liberation Diet, your body will begin rebuilding itself and cleaning itself and you will notice short term and long-term effects. So if closely monitoring cholesterol is part of your regimen with your doctor, it would be safe not to expect marked, long-term decreases to begin until 4 to 6 weeks after weight loss has ended.
1 Stale Food vs. Fresh Food, Robert Ford, copyright 6th edition 1977 by R. S. Ford.
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