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How to Stay Fit with Low LDL Level
More than half people in America has great chance from suffering high cholesterol, this is because they unhealthy life style and lack of exercise. High blood cholesterol level people often find in a big city, where the people cannot find their free time to do exercise of eating healthy food.
Our body needs HDL cholesterol to stay healthy and you have to always make sure that you have low amount of LDL cholesterol. Food that contains with saturated fat and oils like butter might have a great taste and everyone love is, but you have to wait until it blocked your blood circulation and causing heart attack in the future. There are some food choices that you have to cut from your diets, such as chicken skin, egg yolks and organ meats. Chicken skin has lots of fat and it is bad for your heart.
It is a best decision to visit your doctor and check the cholesterol level of your body, after finding out the result, then you should maintain the way you life. If you are busy worker and you dealing with stress on your working place, then you should taking a break from your daily job routine, this is because when you stress out, you tend to eat unhealthy food.
High Blood Cholesterol and Treatments -part 2-
At normal levels, cholesterol is not bad. On the contrary, is an essential raw material used by the body to build cell walls and produce hormones such as estrogen and testosterone.
The body produces its own supply of cholesterol in the liver and occurs naturally in all animal products (meat, eggs, milk and cheese). A problem arises only when the body can not use or remove excess supply and face high level of blood cholesterol.
Cholesterol is classified as a lipid. Travels through the bloodstream bound to proteins, forming complexes called lipoprotein. There are two main types of lipoprotein: low density lipoprotein (LDL), commonly known as “bad” cholesterol and high density lipoprotein (HDL) often called good cholesterol. Read the rest of this entry »
High Blood Cholesterol and Treatments -part 1-
High cholesterol is the best known of all the many threats to heart health. When there are high levels of blood cholesterol, fatty substances accumulate in the walls of the arteries, resulting in a markedly increased risk of total cardiavascular block, leading to a heart attack or stroke.
Tips to start lowering cholesterol:
-Use an herbal supplement, 100% natural, highly potent help to balance cholesterol levels and reduce high blood cholesterol.
Oat bran: A fabulous and inexpensive source of beta-glucan fiber which can reduce both large and small amounts of LDL by 10, 20, 30 mg/dl. Use oat bran hot cereal with skim milk, 1% milk or soy nuts, cranberries, etc. Or you can add one or two teaspoons of yogurt or cottage cheese. (You may need to find oat bran in the bottom shelf of the cereal aisle in a supermarket or health food store, since it is a food that leaves much room for profit to stores and distributors). Read the rest of this entry »