I KNEW MY eating habits weren’t great. Okay, scratch that—they were terrible. I blame my job. I worked in sales in the beer industry for 20 years, where I ate nothing but chicken wings and pizza in smoky bars every day. But I didn’t know just how terrible they’d become, since I’d never had proper blood work done before.
Why’s that, you might ask? Well, I have an extreme fear of needles. As in, I-can-barely-even-talk-about-needles-without-getting-nauseated type of fear. So while my blood pressure was good and my weight was fine, I didn’t know that my cholesterol numbers were off-the-charts bad. My LDL (bad) cholesterol was nearing 400 mg/dL and my HDL (good) cholesterol was around 20 mg/dL.
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