My Mom's Mom lived to be 91 and there was no talk about her cholesterol levels so guess she wasn't tested but she didn't have any heart related problems. Her thing was osteoarthritis everywhere, so she took aspirin around the clock. Which leads me to have a theory that the aspirin kept her "pipes" cleaned out!

But she also lead an active life until the last 5-6 years and ate healthy. She was a housewife but in her day that meant keeping a full vegetable garden with canning everything you didn't eat. Also helping with butchering and taking care of meat from an animal brought in, they didn't have anything at their house, altho' the neighbors had chickens....making jellies (delicious), applebutter and making your grandaughter a jelly junkie for the rest of her life! ha Cleaning everything every week whether it needed it or not! My Mom and I lived with her while my Dad was in Europe in WWII and for 3 yrs after that while Dad built their house. So I participated in all the housework, garden and yardwork and enjoyed all of it, had quite a good education. But I taught myself how to can later from the cookbook "The Joy of Cooking". Guess I'd better quit writing this book....I loved my grandmother....

Her father died at age 70 of a heart attack and my Mom's other grandfather also the same thing. But at that time, that was a longish time for someone to live I think. What I'm saying is that we have a lot of genealogy of my Mom's realtives and they tend to be longer lived. It wouldn't just be that she hasn't had a statin or one of the prominent reasons altho' it could help, she is on a longer life span we think. She had 3 children, starting at 25 and ending with the last at 40. She has always looked younger than she is, her hair is only 1/2 grey now....she looks older now, but....when she puts on her makeup, she still looks pretty good!

PS I found that the Weight Watchers Plan (i did the one before the points one) was very good.
And yes, my Dr. says something if my triglycerides go too high!