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I have heard people say that they want to lower their cholesterol levels in order to lose weight. The reason for decreasing your cholesterol levels is not because you would like to lose weight. That is putting the cart before the horse. You probably only have a few grammes of cholesterol in your body, so reducing that amount is not going to help you look any slimmer. Continue reading

Cholesterol is a colossal difficulty in Western countries and the problem is spreading from older individuals to younger people and from Westerners to Easterners. Health authorities all over the world are warning of the heart disease time bomb that is ticking away. That is all well and good, but the difficulty is is that not many individuals are taking any notice until it is too late. Continue reading

The Western world is under attack from a disease of our own making! Health officials in each Western country are tolling the warning bells about general public levels of obesity, high blood pressure and cholesterol. The foremost culprits of this are said to be over eating, eating junk food and not exercising enough. Continue reading

There is plenty of evidence that all adults ought to keep one eye on their cholesterol levels. In early life, the body can handle a bit of abuse, yet as we get older our bodies get less able to deal with the rubbish we feed it. Furthermore, younger individuals are usually more lively than older individuals and exercise is a means of lowering cholesterol. Continue reading

If you have recently been told that your cholesterol levels are out, you will probably be weighing up the alternatives that your physician gave you. One option would be to take medication and the other option would be to adjust your diet and carry out more exercise. The alterations in diet are not radical, yet they could have a big effect. Exercising might be more of a difficulty to most individuals who lead a sedentary lifestyle. Continue reading

Cholesterol is a major contributory factor in causing heart attacks. However, our own bodies make cholesterol so it can not be all that bad. In fact, we need some cholesterol and apart from that there are two kinds, one of which is called ‘good cholesterol’ and the other as ‘bad cholesterol’. Continue reading

Whenever someone takes a cholesterol blood test, there will normally be four numbers given to you which refer to the levels for LDL (bad cholesterol), HDL (good cholesterol), triglycerides and total cholesterol. The doctor will be looking to see if any of these figures is considerably above the standard for your age and sex. Continue reading