Lower Cholesterol Tips 1.0

* How to understand cholesterol and how it affects your body...

* 3 little known, yet simple ways that cholesterol affects your health and your heart...

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* 3 proven steps to understanding the different types of prescription drugs that are prescribed to lower your cholesterol...

* 2 simple keys (that are right in front of your eyes) to controlling your cholesterol with your diet...

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* You'll discover in just a few short minutes how superfoods can improve your cholesterol...

* 6 time tested and proven strategies for lowering your cholesterol with nutritional supplements...

* When to seek professional help when it comes to your cholesterol...

* 7 everyday but often overlooked tips and tricks for exercising to lower your cholesterol...

* A pennies on the dollar approach to lowering your cholesterol...

* How often to get your cholesterol checked...

* How to use herbs to lower your cholesterol...

* The once famous but forgotten secret that instantly allows you to lower your cholesterol almost instantly...

Here are a few reasons why you should lower your cholesterol. First of all, there are a few major health risks to having high cholesterol. High cholesterol can lead to heart disease and stroke. When too much cholesterol is present in the blood, then a thick hard deposit, called plaque, may form in the body's arteries narrowing the space for blood to flow to the heart. Over time, this buildup causes atherosclerosis, which is called hardening of the arteries, and this is what leads to heart disease. When not enough oxygen-carrying blood reaches the heart due to the amount of plaque in the arteries, chest pain called angina can be the result. If the blood supply to a portion of the heart is completely cut off by total blockage of a coronary artery, the result is a heart attack. This is usually due to a sudden closure from a blood clot forming on top of a previous narrowing. The more LDL there is in the blood, the greater the risk of heart disease. If your levels of HDL are too low, you are also increasing your risk of heart disease.
Several things can lead to high cholesterol. One is having an unhealthy diet. A low-cholesterol diet can help improve cholesterol levels. If a lower cholesterol diet does not work to lower bad cholesterol and increase good cholesterol, your doctor may prescribe medications. Sometimes high cholesterol runs in families. Your genes partly determine how much cholesterol your body makes naturally. Your LDL cholesterol is affected due to how fast LDL is made and removed from the blood. One specific form of inherited high cholesterol that affects 1 in 500 people is familial hypercholesterolemia, which often leads to early heart disease. Gender and age also determine if you are at risk for having high cholesterol levels. As we get older, cholesterol levels rise. Before menopause, women tend to have lower total cholesterol levels than men of the same age. After menopause, however, a women's LDL levels tend to rise until about 60 to 65 years of age.