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Most American people suffer from disease like heart problems and obesity because most of them never engage in regular exercise like jogging or aerobic. Exercise help us to stay fit and healthy, for women, exercise will keep they weight balance and to has better appearance. Exercising can reduce the level of bad cholesterol, LDL cholesterol. Make your time for regular exercising like jogging in the morning.

Walking is the easiest exercise, you can walk to your office and you will feel the differences at the first month, you will feel healthier and you also burn the calories that you get from food. Brisk walking will reduce your weight if you take it regularly. Walking is cheaper than paying a month of membership in fitness centre, what you need is just a healthy legs and a pair of walking shoes and determination.

You also need to consume food that has benefits to increase the HDL cholesterol amount in your body, as example by taking animal protein food like fish, meat or vegetable oils, they are great for your heart and also provide beneficial nutrition for your body. Before eating unhealthy food like fast food or saturated food, you have to put in mind that they contains with saturated oil and fat, which is not healthy for your body.

The research was done on a community of monkeys which recorded that they were subordinate in the social scale, were assaulted and were not included in the grooming sessions that develop these animals.

The subordinate monkeys in this study developed more abdominal fat than the others. The study also indicates that all the monkeys were fed a typical Western diet with excess fat and cholesterol.

Again we see that obesity and many other diseases, are caused by many causes. In this case, bad food there is also an important factor of social stress.

I have said repeatedly that the biggest risk factor is a sedentary lifestyle, in other words: no physical activity whatsoever. With the practice of regular exercise will automatically protects two risk factors: stress and physical inactivity.

This latter is obvious that physical activity addresses the risk of non-exercise training, but also a pleasure to move about and systematic activity releases hormones called endorphins that provide a sense of wellness in the body.

That welfare acts positively on stress, changing the behavior of the person and allowing a social relationship more harmonious and balanced. Do not lose anything by trying instead to fight your stress with drugs and chemicals.

* Use an herbal supplement, 100% natural, highly potent help to balance cholesterol levels and reduce high blood cholesterol.
* Oat bran: A fabulous and inexpensive source of beta-glucan fiber which can reduce both large and small amounts of LDL by 10, 20, 30 mg / dl. Use as oat bran hot cereal with skim milk, 1%, or soy milk with walnuts, cranberries, etc. Or you can add one or two teaspoons of yogurt or cottage cheese. (You may need to find oat bran in the bottom shelf of the cereal aisle in a supermarket or health food store, since it is a food that leaves much room for profit to stores and distributors).
* In general, reduce saturated fats in the diet can be a big step towards reducing the risk of developing heart disease and reduce high blood cholesterol.
Is considered a risk of heart disease, if two or more of the following factors apply:
* Cigarette smoking
* High blood pressure
* Low HDL cholesterol (below 40)
* A family history of early heart disease (before age 55 a man, or 65 in women)
* Your age (over 45 years if you are male, over 55 years if female) Read the rest of this entry »

Usually no symptoms

If you have elevated cholesterol in your blood, this in itself NO symptoms. As a rule, discovered the value of a cholesterol blood test, often randomly measured on a health check, one company control or because the doctor still taking blood tests for something else.

Visible signs

Highly elevated cholesterol levels can cause cholesterol deposits visible on the body:

* As a white ring on the cornea, along the outer edge of the cornea. This is called Arcus senilis cornea.
* As a white cushion-shaped skin lesions, often at the eyes. This is called xantelasmer.
* As a thickening cholesterol nodules under the skin or along hælsenen (achilles). This is called xantomer. Read the rest of this entry »

To reduce high cholesterol levels and keep them in the appropriate level, the first step is to establish a proper diet.

Dietary recommendations that then we are useful both for the patient with high cholesterol levels and for anyone who wants to follow a healthy diet even though their cholesterol levels are normal.

1. Reduce fat intake to no more than 30% of total calories from the diet. Fats can be of several types:
* Saturated fats: They are those that favor the deposition of LDL cholesterol in the arteries. It is found mainly in the animal kingdom, fatty meats, sausages, milk, cheese, butter, etc. And in some vegetable oils such as coconut and palm.
* Polyunsaturated fats: They are those that protect against atherosclerosis because they produce significant decreases in total cholesterol l and that of LDL and HDL. They must be supplied by the diet because the body is unable to synthesize them. Found in some vegetable oils and oily fish special.
* Monounsaturated fats: Increases HDL cholesterol and is found in olive oil.

2. Low in cholesterol, must contain less than 300 mg of cholesterol per day. Some foods are high in cholesterol and relatively low in total fat, such as liver, seafood and eggs. Read the rest of this entry »

For now, we’ve all heard that diets high in fat are detrimental to our long-term health, but what about the short term?

A new animal study finds that 10 days after eating a high fat diet cause short term memory loss and difficulty exercising. While the finding may not seem a big surprise, the researchers say, that diets high in fat lead man to sloth and stupidity.

“Diets high in fat are typically associated with Western and defined long-term complications such as obesity, diabetes and heart failure, but in the short term consequences of these diets have not had much attention,” said Andrew Murray Study co-author at the University of Cambridge in the UK.

“We hope the findings of our study will help people to think seriously about reducing the fat content of your daily food intake for the immediate benefit in the overall health and alert.

Studies of laboratory animals resulted in an increase in protein levels of dissociation 3, which makes less efficient use of oxygen needed for energy functional.

“It’s nothing short period in which it manifests a hangover, a high fat intake,” said Dr. Gerald Weissmann, editor in chief of the magazine, if for example in “A long weekend eating sausages , fries and pizza, while providing a great pleasure for our palates, adversely affects the muscles and brain.

The balance of cholesterol levels has now become a global struggle, to the kind of modern or industrialized food, which stimulates its practical abandonment of natural foods, balanced nutrient-rich, for that reason and a set external factors, we are now in the midst of a great challenge for our health, that only with adequate information and advice, we can beat, so we offer the following tips provided for information:

1. Limit sugar and alcohol. They provide few nutrients but many calories and therefore contribute to high cholesterol levels by increasing body weight. An overweight body contains too much saturated fat and type of LDL or bad cholesterol, high.
2. Bad habits such as smoking and a sedentary lifestyle may increase the risk of heart disease and smokers should quit, regular aerobic exercise (20 to 30 minutes, 3 times a week) can lower levels and help prevent the buildup of cholesterol plaque. It can also reduce stress that can cause high blood pressure, another risk of heart disease.
3. Fish should be eaten often, 3 or more times a week, since research indicates that some deep-sea fish such as mackerel, salmon, herring, albacore tuna, lake trout, contain an oil called Omega – 3 or fatty acids, which owns the property proven to lower cholesterol in blood. The fish oil supplements, however, are not recommended because adding too many calories.
4. Avoid high sodium content in foods. Some patients with high cholesterol also have high blood pressure and sodium reduction, can help keep blood pressure within normal limits and should take into account that it is also an ingredient in many commercially processed foods.

Just as common medications such as antacids, laxatives, and cough remedies can contain large amounts of sodium, our recommendation is to read the product labels.