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What Your Cholesterol Testing Means
If you think atherosclerosis I just for old people, then think again! Most people start to develop cholesterol driven atherosclerosis when they are children and many are not even aware they have it until they have a heart attack or stroke. Luckily, diagnosing cholesterol levels in your blood is as simple as having a blood test. This test will determine your levels of LDL and HDL (or “bad” cholesterol and “good” cholesterol) and then your physician can come up with a treatment plan ...

10 ways To Lower Your Cholesterol
High cholesterol is a major factor in heart disease and most Americans have cholesterol levels that are too high. When controlling your cholesterol, you want to get your body to produce less of the “bad” cholesterol (the LDL) and more of the “good” cholesterol (the HDL). This is because the LDL will deposit cholesterol on your artery walls, but the HDL will help carry cholesterol away from your arteries and back to the liver. What you eat has a direct affect on both LDL and HDL levels. He ...

How Cholesterol Can Kill You
Although cholesterol has a bad rap, it really is a natural function of the human body. It is a waxy, fatty substance that is in all cell walls and membranes in your body. It helps in producing hormones, vitamin D and bile acids and without it you could not survive. So how can it be so bad for you? The problem is not cholesterol per se, but in having too much cholesterol in the bloodstream. Cholesterol is absorbed in the intestines and then passed on to the liver for transport th ...

What Is Cholesterol?
Cholesterol, of course, has been around since we have but it wasn’t until 1951 that a government study on cholesterol brought it into the lime light. This study was done on the bodies of servicemen who lost their lives during the war in Korea and the findings were astounding. You see, at that time, heart disease was thought to be only a disease suffered by older men, but 75% of these servicemen whose average age was 21, had yellow deposits of atherosclerotic plaque in their artery ...