Cholesterol

Garlic and Greet Tea Benefits for Your Health

Not many people are found of garlic, most people dislike them because it will make your breath smells and make other people feels inconvenience. Like it or not, researcher has proved that garlic hold an important role for our health, they recommended garlic for someone who has heart problems.

LDL reduction is another advantages of taking garlic regularly; they also can reduce the amount of triglycerides in your blood. Like LDL cholesterol, triglycerides also has bad effect for our health, it is the major caused for heart or cardiovascular problems.

If you are someone who cannot deal with the bitter taste of garlic and looking for another alternate, then you can go with cholesterol supplements. They are easy to find on regular pharmacies and you will get prescription form to take it regularly. There are some people who questioned the side effect of taking cholesterol supplements, to avoid them you have to choose cholesterol supplements that made from natural extract like artichoke or vitamin E and B. Supplements that contains with green tea extract also has great health benefits to increase the amount of HDL cholesterol. You can also drink green tea regularly, it will keep you healthy and it also has good taste.

Avoiding the Attack of the Silent Killer by Having Lower Cholesterol Level

Many people reconsider it as the silent killer due to the mighty power it has. It can come in any minute of everyone’s life; at day or night, morning or evening. It can also come everywhere we can be. However, once we are attacked by it, most of us will suffer the most suffering pain in the chest.

Even worse, we can loose our life in a minute if we do not get any help from the medical practitioner. Indeed, the notoriety of heart attack has been spread all over the world. Those who are extremely frightened to it even refer it as the silent killer. However, not many people know how to avoid this silent killer.

The modern life style that the modern people live in somehow plays a greater part which triggers the high rate of silent killer level in the whole world. Nowadays, there are many people that seem healthy in the outside but vice versa in the inside.

Basically, one good way of avoiding this silent killer is by developing a healthy diet life style which lower cholesterol level in our body. Certainly, high cholesterol level is one main reason which can invite the phantom of the silent killer to come and pick us soon. Therefore, it is pretty necessary for us to keep up our lower cholesterol level to stay healthy.

Weight Loss and Cholesterol

Weight Loss and Cholesterol

Given the extensive care cholesterol campaign that has been developed over several years, the public identified cholesterol as a very harmful substance to the body. But we all have cholesterol.

Cholesterol is a lipid, very necessary for life, as with the body synthesizes bile, a substance secreted by the liver, important for digestion. Its also produces sex hormones and what is more important, cholesterol is an indispensable component of the membranes (walls) of all cells, especially brain cells.

What is harmful, are the excesses of cholesterol and they are deposited on artery walls promoting atherosclerosis, a process that narrows the vessels light thus hindering the passage of blood must transport food and oxygen to various tissues and organs.

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Which can Lead to Eating More Fat

Which can Lead to Eating More Fat

Sure you know that excess fat is good for our health, and if you’re dieting is not about choosing not to consume but the quality of fats and control the amount ingested to achieve a balanced diet that benefits the operation of body.

Here what the excess fat can cause:

Hinder digestion: A high-fat meal is heavier, more indigestible and can cause discomfort after eating copious, therefore, best to limit fat in each meal and thus achieve a lighter meal, allowing us to remain active and without discomfort after it.

It makes us eat more: Fats have a high palatability, does not produce a lot of fullness and are easily storable energy, why, how much fat we eat, the more we want.

They are focusing on energy: fats increase the caloric density of the diet as they are the macronutrient that provides more calories per gram, therefore, a high intake of fats in the day may promote positive energy balance and thus lead to an increase weight.

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Facts About Cholesterol (Part 2)

cholesterolFact # 4: Physical exercise will lower cholesterol levels.

An increase in body weight tends to increase blood cholesterol, blood pressure, and in general the risk of adverse effects on heart health. In addition to maintaining body weight in balance, physical activity can help lower blood pressure and increase the health and general welfare.

Things can change to lower cholesterol:

Maintain a healthy weight (a weight gain tends to increase cholesterol levels)
• Make physical activity (reduce LDL cholesterol)
• Lower stress
• A healthy diet (elimiinar especially saturated fats that raise cholesterol levels)
• Limit alcohol consumption
• Stop smoking

Things we can not change:

• Sex (men tend to have higher cholesterol levels than women until menopause, when men and women are at equal risk)
• The age (cholesterol levels increase with age)

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Facts About Cholesterol (Part 1)

cholesterolFact # 1: Cholesterol is a waxy substance found in the membranes of cells in our body.

Basically, cholesterol is a lipid, which is broadly defined as any fat-soluble, naturally occurring molecule, such as fats and oils. Cholesterol originates naturally in the body through the liver, but can be created in small quantities through our diet.

Cholesterol plays an important role in the body as a building block for cell walls and bile acids and is necessary to make hormones and vitamin D. A low level of blood cholesterol is natural and healthy.

Cholesterol only becomes a problem when more cholesterol in the blood than the body needs. Can cause the buildup of fatty deposits in the arteries, reducing blood flow in the arteries and then can become a problem for heart health.

Fact # 2: There are two types of blood cholesterol (good and bad) that are transported in special packages, namely:

Low density lipoprotein (LDL) transports cholesterol from the liver to body tissues. If there is a high level of bad cholesterol (LDL) levels can accumulate in the walls of blood vessels and lead to narrowing.

Your total cholesterol is made up of LDL and HDL. Therefore, the total cholesterol level recommended for heart health should be below 200 milligrams per deciliter (mg / dl).

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