Archive for the ‘Cholesterol’ Category
Cholesterol levels in the blood can increase your risk of heart disease and heart attack. The following articles provide a more indepth look at cholesterol, and how you can ensure your cholesterol stays within healthy levels.
Are you gaining weight? Does this make you worry about your cholesterol level? Do you feel like you need to do something about your eating habits particularly your cholesterol diet?
Good idea. Unhealthy cholesterol levels do not exhibit symptoms until complications like serious heart disease, which can result in heart attacks, occur. Medication has shown to [...]
Heart disease and heart attacks continue to be among the leading causes of death in Americans.
If you suffer from heart disease or are at high risk of developing it, your doctor may recommend that you go on a cholesterol diet.
A cholesterol diet is a low fat diet that can help reduce your blood cholesterol level. [...]
People above 20 years old are advised to undergo the lipoprotein profile or the cholesterol level test at least once in every five years. This test involves taking blood sample from the patient in order to find out his cholesterol numbers. The lipoprotein profile includes the following: LDL or bad cholesterol, HDL or good cholesterol, [...]
For some people, lowering the cholesterol level is easy. A low cholesterol diet, exercise and proper intake of supplements and medication would do the trick. The fact is; no matter how healthy you may seem, if you have an elevated LDL (low-density lipoprotein) cholesterol level, you are at risk of having coronary heart disease. It [...]
A healthy diet and regular exercise help maintain our cholesterol level. However, sometimes these will not work. This is where cholesterol medications come in. There are many cholesterol medications in the market. Before you take cholesterol medications, you must first understand what it is and what it does.
Cholesterol medication or cholesterol reducing medications are medications [...]