I was just reading somewhere about grapefruit pectin cleaning up arteries. It says don't add grapefruit products if you take Lipitor...I would check into more natural ways if you have some leeway timewise. Don't get a swelled head about not eating red meat. Some people need it and more saturated fats than others. Read the metabolic body typing diet or some such title. Read all you can by Dr. Mary Enig, fat specialist. Read the Dr. Atkins books and don't let people scare you about what he says. Read Syndrome X by Dr. whozit. Anything by Dr. Schwarzbein and Dr. Bernstein (diabetes). A lot of this stuff is linked with too much insulin and too much white carb stuff. Get rid of all white carbs, rice, sugar, potatoes, beer,... for a while and see if it goes down naturally. You have no need nutritioanlly for the equivalent of library paste. mg