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Cholesterol is a substance the body needs in order to complete some of its functions like creating cell tissues, protecting nerves and creating hormones. Cholesterol is produced by the liver but aliments like eggs and meat contain it too and by eating them we bring this cholesterol to out body.

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Diet changes improve older adults' cholesterol too

Conventional wisdom holds that people should follow a healthy diet and get regular exercise to help control their cholesterol and triglycerides, Read the rest of this entry

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If you have been to see a physician regarding your cholesterol levels, hopefully they have advised you to lower your high cholesterol through diet, if not and they have recommended you start taking statins, you may want to consider trying to lower your high cholesterol through diet first anyway before agreeing to take a lifetime prescription of these drugs. Don’t Read the rest of this entry

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Have you been told by your doctor that you have high cholesterol? Are you still wondering what must have caused it? Here are the 7 common causes of high cholesterol which you must know before you can take the right steps to lower and reverse it.

The food you eat on a daily basis can cause high cholesterol. It has been proven that eating too much saturated fat especially Read the rest of this entry

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How about these right… I think you’ll find the following nuggets of wisdom particularly insightful. Leave your comments below. Check out the second one in particular…

Go Red: Save lives with the power of your very own voice

With high blood pressure and high cholesterol levels, difficulty walking up stairs and performing normal activities, she began her long journey Read the rest of this entry

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There is a saying that goes. “We are what we eat.” This is so true as the food being consumed may affect the cholesterol levels inside the person’s system. This makes this makes the person prone to high blood pressure or heart disease through age, which could leave the patient, paralyzed or dead.

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How To Reduce Cholesterol Using Home Remedies

There are two types of blood cholesterol: Low-density lipoproteins (LDL) and High-density lipoproteins (HDL). LDLs are bad because they are the ones responsible for deposit of plaque on the arteries walls. Deposit of plaque reduces the diameter of the artery and thereby restricts flow of blood through it. Therefore Read the rest of this entry

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