What is Cholesterol?
Cholesterol is a waxy substance the body uses to protect nerves, make tissues and produce certain hormones. Our liver makes most of the cholesterol in the body. Some cholesterol also comes from foods such as eggs, meats and dairy products.
Good or Bad?
Cholesterol can be both good and bad however in many cases, high level of Cholesterol is always dangerous. So it becomes necessary to know how it affects your health and how to manage your blood cholesterol levels. Understanding the facts about cholesterol will help you take better care of your heart, search out the best cholesterol remedies and live a healthier life, also it may reduce your risk for heart attack and stroke.
If your total cholesterol is less than 200 mg/dL, the risk of heart attack can be minimized with balanced low saturated diet and regular physical activity.
Why is this harmful?
High level of Cholesterol is always harmful and dangerous. Most of the time, it turns to produce Heart Disease in human body and resulting the cause of deaths, stroke or related diseases. Being a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke, it is the main culprit of lacks of deaths due to heart attack every year.
How cholesterol is linked with heart problems?
The extra cholesterol in your blood gets stored in your arteries (blood vessels that carry blood) and will cause them to narrow or sometimes it blocks the arteries. This is called atherosclerosis. Large deposits of cholesterol can completely block an artery, so the blood can’t flow through the arteries and finally it causes the heart attack.
If you have high cholesterol, it is not a matter of despair, instead high cholesterol can be modified, and there are active steps one can take to lower his cholesterol to its normal range.
Can it be lowered?
Cholesterol-lowering medicines, such as Zocor (simvastatin), Lipitor (atorvastatin), Pravachol (pravastatin), and Crestor (rosuvastatin), work mainly with your liver to decrease production of cholesterol and reduce cholesterol in your bloodstream. They can be taken to lower your cholesterol level depending on your previous medical history and consultation with your doctor.
Changing our eating habits is the best and effective way to help lower blood cholesterol levels. Intake of foods low in saturated fat helps lowering our blood cholesterol level. For this, we can take bread, cereals, rice, pasta, vegetables, fruits, legumes (dried peas, beans and eggs), lean meats, poultry, fish, and reduced fat dairy.
In addition to high cholesterol, there are other risk factors that can increase your chance of developing heart disease. So take precautions and enjoy with more healthy life than ever.
Asma
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/a-link-between-cholesterol-and-heart-97340.html
Has the link between high cholesterol and heart disease ever been proven?
HI well yes and no
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Absolutely. The study that did so is one of the most famous in modern medicine. It’s used as an example for designing large scale studies in the population and the results have been repeated various times.
The basic of it is that high cholesterol leads to the formation of atherosclerotic plaques in the arteries. This narrows the arteries – if it’s i the tiny ones that feed the heart this can be dangerous. In addition, these plaques can rupture and throw blood clots causing a stroke if they get into the brain, but more often they get caught in the tiny arteries that feed the heart – this is a heart attack. The combination of these two factors are essentially the only cause of heart disease wide spread in the population.
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Yes. The link is through arterial disease. The higher your cholesterol level, the more fat is deposited in your arteries, leading to a narrowing of the arteries, which leads to constantly elevated blood pressure, which overworks the heart, which leads to heart disease. The other pathway is this: high cholesterol leads to unstable blockages, some of which break off which then cause heart attacks.
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http://www.collectivewizdom.com/MyHeartAttackpage1
surely.
Many studies proved that relation
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NEVER, and they keep trying and they keep failing. Of course since it is the drug companies that are trying to prove that everyone should take their drugs, when they fail you never hear about it. The latest is the ENHANCE study. Adding one cholesterol drug to another caused the cholesterol numbers to fall another 17% but the measurement of the INCREASE in growth of plaque was double. That tells you that lowering the cholesterol has no effect (or even negative effect) on plaque formation. Now this study was concluded 2 years ago but they did not release it until recently. Guess what they did for 2 years? They ran millions of ads about the two kinds of cholesterol. They captured 18% of the market for a drug that cost $4 a day and they knew it did not work any better than the $0.25 per day drug. Never artificially lower your cholesterol. If your body makes it, you need it.Now lowering it naturally is another story. As I said, if you NEED it than your body makes more, but why do you need it?
Pharmacist who’s life was almost ruined by Lipitor
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http://spacedoc.net/why_ENHANCE_failed.html
"Good Calories, Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes 2007
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