December 24th, 2009 
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Learning how to reduce cholesterol can be the difference between living a long and healthy life or suffering from a multitude of life threatening diseases that include coronary artery disease, heart disease, blood clots, and stroke. In fact if you are unfortunate enough to visit the doctor and receive a high cholesterol test result your doctor will tell you much the same thing and will recommend that you begin a diet and exercise program to help get it under control and back to normal.
The most important step when it comes to reducing cholesterol is diet. What you eat and how it is prepared has a big impact on blood cholesterol levels, and the thing that affects it the most is not what you may think. There was a time when a low cholesterol diet meant avoiding any food that had cholesterol in it. This made for a limited diet that many people just didn’t want to follow because all sources of food derived from animals has cholesterol in it.
Medical research now tells us that this isn’t necessarily true. Cholesterol found in food doesn’t easily find its way into the human circulatory system. The biggest factors that raise blood levels are in fact saturated fat and trans fat. By cutting these two forms of fat out of the daily diet we can reduce blood cholesterol significantly.
This is why the way we select and prepare our food is so important. By choosing lean and low fat foods we have won half the battle. But once we get our groceries home and start cooking many times we sabotage our efforts at the grocery store. Cooking, or frying, our foods in vegetable oils and margarine or butter high in saturated and trans fats loads up these low fat foods with more fat. Poultry and fish are two great choices in a low cholesterol diet, that is until we batter them and lower them into a pot of hot oil.
Learning to read labels becomes an important skill in the fight against high cholesterol. Not only are lean cuts of meat a good way to go but when it comes to dairy it is important to make the switch to low fat items. Whole milk needs to be replaced with one-percent or skim milk. Dairy has many nutrients we need so completely cutting it from the diet is not a good idea, but luckily the low fat versions are full of the same vitamins and minerals.
Exercise is another important part of reducing cholesterol. Joining a gym is not necessary, but some form of physical activity is. This can be as simple as going for a thirty minute walk every day or at least every other day. Exercise also has other health benefits that are hard to beat, all of which lead to a healthier you.
Diet and exercise are the first line of defense in the fight against high cholesterol. Because of the lifestyle the majority of people live these days health issues are going to continue to become and increasing problem in the coming years. A few simple changes with diet and exercise could go a long way towards changing this, particularly when we want to reduce cholesterol levels as a way to a more healthy life.
Andrew Bicknell
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I have been having tingling fingers, somewhat numb tongue, vertigo feeling and I am concerned that it may be high cholesterol . I have been tested in the past and my numbers have been right at border line. My blood sugars are fine and my blood pressure was fine this morning. Would anyone who has high cholesterol know if your symptoms are in the danger zone? Please advise. Thanks.
I take Garlique every morning and my cholesterol has been around 160 for the last 3 years, which is a very good level. I believe the Garlique helps.
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The Cholesterol Theory is A FALSE PARADIGM
NOT ONE SINGLE WELL CONTROLELD CLINCIAL TRIAL HAS EVER SHOWN ANY CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY BENEFIT TO SATURATE DFAT RESTRCITION OR CHOLESTEROL LOWERING.
Hypercholesterolemia is A MAN MADE INVENTED DISEASE , A FAKE "DISEASE"
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CONFRONT YOUR LYING DOCTOR TODAY!
References :
http://www.thegreatcholesterolcon.com
http://www.ravnskov.nu/cholesterol.htm
http://www.THINCS.org
Dyslipidemia is elevation of plasma cholesterol and/or TGs or a low HDL level that contributes to the development of atherosclerosis. Causes may be primary (genetic) or secondary. Diagnosis is by measuring plasma levels of total cholesterol, TGs, and individual lipoproteins. Treatment is dietary changes, exercise, and lipid-lowering drugs.
Cholesterol- Get your LDL (bad cholesterol) levels checked at least once a year. (Target: Below 100 mg/dL). Triglycerides. (Target: Less than 150 mg/dL) Serum Cholesterol (Target: Less than 200 mg/dL) HDL (good cholesterol) (Target: More than 50 mg/dL) Eat a low-cholesterol, low-fat diet. This kind of diet includes cottage cheese, fat-free milk, fish (not canned in oil), vegetables, poultry, egg whites, and polyunsaturated oils and margarines (corn, safflower, canola, and soybean oils). Avoid foods with excess fat in them such as meat (especially liver and fatty meat), egg yolks, whole milk, cream, butter, shortening, lard, pastries, cakes, cookies, gravy, peanut butter, chocolate, olives, potato chips, coconut, cheese (other than cottage cheese), coconut oil, palm oil, and fried foods.
Changes in lifestyle habits are the main therapy for hypertriglyceridemia. These are the changes you need to make:
•If you’re overweight, cut down on calories to reach your ideal body weight. This includes all sources of calories, from fats, proteins, carbohydrates and alcohol.
•Reduce the saturated fat, trans fat and cholesterol content of your diet.
•Reduce your intake of alcohol considerably. Even small amounts of alcohol can lead to large changes in plasma triglyceride levels.
•Be physically active for at least 30 minutes on most or all days each week.
•People with high triglycerides may need to substitute monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats — such as those found in canola oil, olive oil or liquid margarine — for saturated fats. Substituting carbohydrates for fats may raise triglyceride levels and may decrease HDL ("good") cholesterol in some people.
•Substitute fish high in omega-3 fatty acids instead of meats high in saturated fat like hamburger. Fatty fish like mackerel, lake trout, herring, sardines, albacore tuna and salmon are high in omega-3 fatty acids.
Please see the web pages for more details on Hyperlipidemia.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlipidemia
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000403.htm
http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec12/ch159/ch159b.html#sec12-ch159-ch159b-1289
Why don’t you try some time tested home remedies. There is this web site which I found real helpful. Good luck. You’ll be all right. http://ailments.in/hypertension.html
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High cholesterol is technically not an ailment but a condition or rather an indicator that your body has too much fat in the blood. Definitely can be lowered with a healthy diet focusing on low fat, low cholesterol food (no red meat), high fiber and regular exercise. Before your doctor put you on any anti-cholesterol medication, try to cleanse your body with natural remedy like almond, oatmeal in which the soluble fiber does a great job to remove the cholesterol to your stool and out of your body. For a list of top natural remedy for high cholesterol, check out http://www.cureshare.com/view_condition.php?cond_id=22
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