I have recently been told that I have what they call border-line high Cholesterol and it made me re-evaluate what foods I choose at the grocery store. Previously I was paying attention to just foods which did not include high fructose corn syrup because of research which shows that man made corn syrup leads to really high upper and low downer feelings in people. You should try this as an exercise sometime in the grocery store, just take the food you normally purchase and see if high fructose corn syrup is one of the top five items on the ingredients list.

The main point of this post is that now not only do I have to pay attention to high fructose corn syrup, but now I get to pay attention to foods with lower Cholesterol. This means goodbye to butter, to string cheese, to whole milk and to nice juicy steaks. So far I have been doing quite well in the past few grocery trips in keeping track of what I eat. The only thing that I really cheat on is the whole milk, I just cannot go without it. So as a compromise, my wife and I agreed to have less than one glass per day.

In the end, we are all in control of how we look, feel and our overall health. I encourage everyone who may read this to read the labels when they go grocery shopping and educate yourself on what each item in the ingredients list means. Look at the nutrition charts and make sure you are not taking in too much trans fat or Cholesterol.