Lowering Your Cholesterol Level Naturally

Lowering your cholesterol level is your most important mission to achieve if you really concern about your health. But, to be specific here, I want to stress that we should lower our LDL cholesterol level but not HDL cholesterol level. What is HDL and LDL Cholesterol? Cholesterol is a type of fat (lipid), like waxy [...]

Cholesterol content foods

What are the cholesterol content foods? I think this question is important as we must know what foods contains high cholesterol and what food is low cholesterol and more healthy for us to contain. Other than food, the way to process the food may also increase the cholesterol of the food too. It is good [...]

cholesterol life style change

High cholesterol level has become the most talking topics in our daily health talk. The success of propagation by government health sector has increased the awareness of the public about the danger of high cholesterol to our health. However, the success of increase the awareness of cholesterol does not mean that every one start to [...]

cholesterol numbers

What are the healthy Cholesterol numbers for us? Every one is talking about high cholesterol level. Then what cholesterol number is considered high and what number is acceptable? Here, I will brief about the common standard of the range of cholesterol we should have. When you do body medical test for cholesterol level, the cholesterol [...]

Cholesterol–heart attack causes?

When we talk about high cholesterol level, most of the time it is due to  low density lipoprotein (LDL ) cholesterol is high which cause the overall cholesterol number is high. But why many health specialists have keep warning us that high cholesterol level will expose us to the high risk of getting heart attack, [...]

Check Your Health, Learn About Cholesterol

It’s a good idea to get your cholesterol checked regularly … and that way you’ll always know how healthy you at any given time. Your doctor will break down the report telling you several stats … this will give you an accurate understanding of just how healthy you really are. The tests are so sophisticated [...]

Selecting Cholesterol-Free Foods

Almost everybody knows the effects of bad cholesterol on the body.  Bad cholesterol literally means that the low-density lipoprotein deposits thicken the walls of arteries making the flow of blood affect the atherogenic status of the arterial walls. Many people don’t appreciate the importance of cholesterol in their body. Cholesterol is non-soluble waxy matter that [...]

how to get your cholesterol test?

Before you get a cholesterol test, you will be told by doctor or nurse to fast for at least 9 – 12 hours before the test. You cannot eat any food. If you do eat food within the period, this will affect the accuracy of the cholesterol test. You can only drink plain water that [...]

how often should we test our cholesterol?

According to the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) guidelines, for adults’  age over 20 years old and above should go for cholesterol test for their HDL (good) cholesterol, LDL (bad) cholesterol and triglycerides level at least once in 5 years. However, if you are belongs to below groups you should check more often, suggested once [...]

What are good foods to lower your cholesterol?

What are good foods to lower your cholesterol? This is a very common question that a lot of people with high cholesterol will ask. So, what are the good foods that we can put into our low cholesterol diet plan? I will list up some good foods for your reference below: Wholegrain foods like Oatmeal [...]

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