What is your daily average cholesterol levels?

Are you following a cholesterol diet based on eating the typical recommended cholesterol foods?

Is your cholesterol high?

Is your cholesterol low?

How to get your cholesterol lower?

A normal healthy body produces substances that circulate in your bloodstream for lowering cholesterol.

An example is insulin, which is secreted from the pancreas in response to the increase in the amount of sugar from the food that you eat.

The cells then absorb this which converts calories that are used as energy.

Another substance your body produces naturally is cholesterol.

Cholesterol is also ingested in the food you eat.

There are two types of cholesterol:

1. Cholesterol LDL 
2. Cholesterol HDL

Cholesterol LDL is better known as bad cholesterol.

The reason why it is bad cholesterol because too much of this in your body may put you at risk of suffering from either a heart attack or a stroke. 

Cholesterol HDL in simple terms is good cholesterol because it’s job is to regulate the flow of bad cholesterol so this can be filtered out of your body.

Of course, there must be a balanced between the two so you stay healthy.

Whenever you get a blood test, you’ll see a breakdown of the LDL and HDL in your system.  

Though not that significant as ldl cholesterol and hdl cholesterol, doctors focus on the total cholesterol level and triglyceride level…

In order to be given a clean bill of health, you must stay within a certain range which is a results of less than 200mg/dl in total cholesterol to be safe.

The same goes for someone who has less than 150mg/dl in the triglycerides.

So what happens if the results you get goes beyond the limit? 

In simple terms, you maybe at risk of developing high blood pressure or a heart disease.

Now, the good news is you can avoid premature death from happening…

Basically, there are four simple ways to do it and this must be done gradually before something bad really happens.

The first is to change your eating habits and this means eating less foods that are high in saturated fats (red meat & dairy products).

You can easily add fish, fruits, nuts, oatmeal and fresh vegetables for a healthy balance. 

Studies have shown for women who eat oatmeal regularly are able to reduce the LDL and trigylecerides level in just 2 weeks.

Imagine what could happen if this is done even after just a month?

The second health benefits is to add exercise. 

Your body will continue to store more deadly fat…so how many years have you been sedentary or not engaging in any physical activity?

Only…YOU can honestly answer this question!

Changing your eating habits can only go so far and sweating it out will increase the metabolic rate helping reduce your overall cholesterol levels.

The third, which doesn’t happen often is to take supplements to aid in the reduction of cholesterol.

Examples of these are acid resins, ezetimibe, fibric acid, niacin and statins.

These are available in different brands and studies have proven this can lower the cholesterol from 15% to 30% when taken regularly.
  
What if exercise and dieting doesn’t work for you?

Remember the intake of prescription drugs has certain side effects.

In fact, your doctor must clearly explain this before even prescribing any drugs so you can make an informed decision.

There is a wide range of drugs that can be used to lower cholesterol.

Some say detox diets are the best way to combat any disease…

You may want to get a regular checkup at the doctor’s office to make sure your blood cholesterol is at normal cholesterol levels. 

On the upside, this will surely save you money instead of being confined to a hospital bed. So…it’s important to know how high is your cholesterol?