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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.

Vitamin E is a strong, fat-soluble antioxidant that helps protect cell membranes against damage caused by free radicals and it helps prevent the oxidation of LDL cholestero

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!

I imagine most readers of this blog would expect a group of subjects to do better on a Paleolithic diet as compared to a standard American diet, but there are few studies actually making the comparison. One was posted yesterday in the Advance-0nline-Publication section of the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition that shows subjects following a Paleolithic diet made major metabolic changes, and made them rapidly

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.)

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.