The notion that high cholesterol is bad for you is receiving many challenges. An increasing number of medical professionals and researchers doubt this publicly accepted and heavily promoted argument. The past few weeks saw a couple of especially damaging studies that seriously challenge what most of us think we know about the dangers of high [...]
Although cholesterol serves many essential roles in keeping our bodies in good health it receives more attention when it is harmful to our bodies. It is harmful when there is too much in the body. We produce about 80% of the cholesterol that is needed by the body naturally in the liver. The rest is [...]
As a general rule, many people including some in the medical community strongly encourage treating health issues with natural supplements. These can substitute for, or augment a prescription drug therapy. Why is this idea of going green in the treatment of your health needs coming into vogue? Let’s take a look at some of these [...]
Cholesterol is the fatty and waxy lipid solution circulating in the body providing protective coating to the arteries and its surrounding walls. It also produces hormones and keeps the fat level intact in the body. It is said to be prevailing in every cell of the body. Despite being very important and useful still [...]
What is cholesterol? Usually people only focus their interest on ways of lowering cholesterol without ever really understanding what cholesterol is. If you understand what cholesterol is, can at least give you some better knowledge on why it’s necessary to keep it low, and how. If not, it may at least help prepare you for [...]
First, the Bad News: LDL Cholesterol, Large and Small How does an artery become damaged? Understanding how our body’s vascular plumbing system-especially the arteries-becomes damaged by imbalances in the cholesterol it creates is critical to understanding what causes chronic heart disease. LDL’s job is to carry cholesterol and fatty acids from the liver, where it [...]
Nobody wants to suffer from heart disease and big proponent of it is cholesterol; so let’s talk about LDL cholesterol: the diet to lower bad cholesterol. Just in case some of you aren’t aware of what I mean by LDL, this is ‘bad’ cholesterol, the type you should avoid as it causes clogged arteries. HDL [...]
Cholesterol is nothing more than an association of steroid, lipid and alcohol that is found in the cell membranes of all body tissues. It is transported to the blood and it can be found in all animals. The Chemical formula of cholesterol is C27H45OH.Many things have been said about cholesterol. Some doctors simply prescribe a [...]
Measuring the cholesterol level is a very important component in maintaining a hale and hearty lifestyle. According to the statistics of the American Heart Association, more than fifty percent of total American population have high bad cholesterol level. This means that every man has a possibility of high risk to any form of heart failure. [...]
Once you can identify the two major types of cholesterol, LDL and HDL, and how they can affect your body, the next step in becoming more informed is to understand the cholesterol numbers game. The report that your doctor or health care professional receives from the laboratory analyzing your blood will have four numbers that [...]
