{"id":5961,"date":"2004-06-23T06:23:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-23T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/06\/23\/the-good-news-and-the-uh-good-news.html"},"modified":"2004-06-23T06:23:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-23T13:23:00","slug":"the_good_news_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/23\/the_good_news_a.html","title":{"rendered":"The good news and the, uh, good news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Per the mail back from the lab whilst we were away:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cholesterol is good (162, where the target is under 200).\n<li>My HDL (&#8220;good&#8221; cholesterol) is at 39 (target over 40), while my LDL (&#8220;bad&#8221; cholesterol) is 98 (target under 100).  So there&#8217;s a bit of room for improvement there (usual advice of diet and exercise).<\/p>\n<li>My triglycerides are back under control (somehow) from my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/04\/08\/a_slightly_dust.html\">last test<\/a>, at 123 (target under 150).<\/ul>\n<p>And, for the record, my kidney, liver, and thyroid all seem to be doing their thang, and no hint of diabetes.  Woo-hoo.<\/p>\n<p>And the other good news?  Despite a week of Eating, Drinking, and Being Merry, I appear, as of this morning, to have only gained one pound.  Which makes me wonder whether there&#8217;s some sort of gravitational anomaly surrounding my bathroom scale, but that&#8217;s another story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Per the mail back from the lab whilst we were away: Cholesterol is good (162, where the target is under 200). My HDL (&#8220;good&#8221; cholesterol) is at 39 (target over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-weight"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11245,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/12\/fairly_fit.html","url_meta":{"origin":5961,"position":0},"title":"Fairly fit","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 12-Oct-07 3:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I think it's incredibly cool that I get my lab tests online from Kaiser the day of the actual going in for the test. 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