By Mr. Parveen
 Cholesterol is something that we all have. This fatty substance found in every cell in your body and plays an important role in a variety of vital functions, including maintaining cell membranes, hormone synthesis, and production of vitamin D.
However, the body naturally produces adequate amounts of cholesterol to sustain optimal body and so any extra cholesterol added to our diet is unnecessary and when levels become too high in cholesterol becomes potentially dangerous.
The body manufactures two types of cholesterol - LDL (bad form of cholesterol) and HDL (good form of cholesterol).
When LDL levels are too high, fat, or plaque, can begin to accumulate on the walls of your arteries, reducing the amount of blood that can go through and putting a greater risk of heart attacks, arteriosclerosis or heart disease.
Healthy levels of HDL cholesterol help clear this up in the arteries before I have a chance to build. To maintain healthy levels, we need to maintain low levels of LDL and HDL levels up.
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By Vin Sam
 We are raising an overweight society. With big-sizing everything that we eat especially in fast food chains, we're slowly clogging our arteries with unnecessary fats and cholesterol that our physical structures do not actually need and cannot use.
The result is naturally a society that is pestered with different kinds of cholesterol complications like heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, and overweight problems. Correctly, one of the problems that the land is facing is the rising prevalence of individuals with hypertension, which can lead to a potential heart attack when not taken cared of.
So what can you do decrease your cholesterol levels? The first line, perhaps the just one single that is truly effective is a combination of regular working out and appropriate diet. These two activities go in tandem. Without one factor, you can't succeed. Dieting without exercising the body will only run to weak muscles, which will eventually weaken the body's resistance.
It will probably extend to fatigue and sore muscles because there's not plenty nutrients in the body. Require you to, on the other hand, |
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By Mai Brooks
 In 2006, results from the world's largest low fat diet project were published (see reference at end). This was a US government-funded study of 48,835 postmenopausal women in a multicenter prospective, randomized clinical trial known as the Women's Health Initiative Randomized Controlled Dietary Modification Trial. The study was conducted from 1993 to 2005 at 40 centers around the country. The volunteers were randomly assigned to either a low-fat diet group (19,541 women) or a regular diet group (29,294 women). After about eight years of follow-up, this large and costly study did not find any significant differences in breast cancer incidence between postmenopausal women who were asked to eat a low-fat diet and those who continued to eat their regular diet. On the other hand, the results did suggest that changing to a low-fat diet may reduce the risk of breast cancer for women who had diets very high in fat to begin with.
According to most experts, the following may be reasons why this study showed no significant benefit:
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