{"id":257,"date":"2006-06-19T18:36:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swatisani.net\/blog\/2006\/06\/19\/on-a-high\/"},"modified":"2009-07-09T16:56:24","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T11:26:24","slug":"on-a-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swatisani.net\/blog\/2006\/06\/19\/on-a-high\/","title":{"rendered":"On a high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it has happened, I am on anti lipid drugs. After 5 years of fighting to keep my triglyceride levels in check with diet and exercises alone, my endocrinologist told me they are going over the roof now and I should be put on medication. During the annual health check up in March 06, the levels were 229 (normal is 200), a repeat  lipid profile on 15th June 2006 shows that triglyceride level have happily glided up to 568 and VLDL  from 46 to 113 -enough for the alarm bells to ring. I don\u2019t like to live on medicines, but there is no escaping reality. I am glad though that I don\u2019t have diabetes currently.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday was spent lazing around watching \u201cAntarmahal\u201d a Bengali movie  directed by Rituparna Ghosh. To repeat myself, I love the way this man handles characters and their relationship. Playing with the  light and dark shades of people he makes them all so real that it gives goose pimples. Bongs indeed are sensitive and creative people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it has happened, I am on anti lipid drugs. After 5 years of fighting to keep my triglyceride levels in check with diet and exercises alone, my endocrinologist told me they are going over the roof now and I should be put on medication. 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