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The main cause of high cholesterol is due to unhealthy lifestyle, diet rich in saturated fats and lack of adequate physical activity. Plant fibers help in lowering which includes fruits, vegetables and whole grains. Some foods and herbs are helpful to maintain cholesterol naturally.

The main cause of high cholesterol is due to unhealthy lifestyle, diet rich in saturated fats and lack of adequate physical activity. Plant fibers help in lowering which includes fruits, vegetables and whole grains. Some foods and herbs are helpful to maintain cholesterol naturally.

Hearing "cholesterol" likely invokes a negative reaction for many. However, it actually helps create necessary elements for your body, such as cell walls and hormones. It's also used to make bile acids, which help with digestion. High cholesterol levels are a severe health risk and can increase your chances of developing heart disease. For this reason, many people take statins or other medications to lower their cholesterol levels. You may have also heard that curcumin-the active ingredient in turmeric-can help reduce LDL (bad) cholesterol and raise HDL (good) cholesterol. The question is: Does it really work? If so, how much should you take and how often? Does current research and study support this claim? In this article, we'll discuss all these queries. So let's dive into it!

Measuring the thickness of a person's neck may provide as many clues to their risk of developing heart problems as measuring their waist, a study says. Researchers from the Framingham Heart Study found even those with relatively trim waistlines appeared to be at greater risk if they had larger necks.

What causes coronary heart disease or coronary atherosclerotic plaque, this thing that we track with heart scans? \n\nWell, here are a few little-publicized facts about heart disease that you are unlikely to hear from your When's-the-next-stent? cardiologist or the What is there besides statins? primary care doctor. \n\n(Since everybody knows that smoking is a modifiable risk for heart disease that can be readily identified, let's focus on the blood tests that reveal heart disease causes.)

I stumbled on one of the growing number of local media stories on the power of vitamin D. \nIn one story, a purported "expert" was talking about the benefits of "high-dose" vitamin D, meaning up to 1000, even 2000 units per day. \nI regard this as high-dose---for an infant. \nJudging by my experiences, now numbering well over 1000 patients over three years time, I'd regard this dose range not as "high dose," nor moderate dose, perhaps not even low dose. I'd regard it as barely adequate.

As if we had not enough to worry about when it comes to cholesterol levels, now we learn to our dismay, about oxycholesterol, a new kind of cholesterol that can add insult to injury by raising our bad cholesterol. This type of cholesterol is found in certain foods and can increase our risk for heart disease.