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When you have to watch out the cholesterol level in your body, do not forget that sugar may create other type of fat as harmful as the bad cholesterol. How to avoid these bad fats easily?

The word ‘easily’ avoid bad fats does not really express the real things you have to do. Changing your eating behavior could take some time before you are used to it. You need to stick on the plan of how to lower cholesterol and be discipline to do it. Low sugar diet is good for your health but need high discipline to be successfully done. Sugar as a form of carbohydrate will increase triglyceride in our body. This natural substance causes blood cloth or the blocking in the blood vessel. The blood cloth is the primary cause of heart attack if it happens in the artery, and the cause of stroke if it is stick on the blood vessel in the brain. You should not forget triglyceride when you work on your cholesterol.

The natural way to control triglyceride is by having low sugar diet and low carbohydrate diet. Change your sugar to diet sugar, change the white bread to whole wheat bread which contained less carbohydrate and more fiber. Forget doughnuts, you can have healthier snack made from beans and nuts. It will give you the energy without additional triglyceride in your body.   If your total fat and cholesterol is too high, you may need more than just healthy diet. Natural supplements are now available in the market. Read the review in lowercholesterol.org

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Death is the most feared thing by every single person in this world. If the come has come, perhaps they are not scared, but what if they are not ready, and suddenly death comes and take their life away? This kind of accident has happened every time, everywhere, all over the world. Many communities, many families, many societies have grieved by this unexpected tragedy.

In order to prevent this accident to come to us, we need to make and create the very best protection for our lives. Start from the medical check-up to see the high cholesterol level in our body, is it high enough to threat our lives or now. Put the medical check-up as the number one priority, especially when you have entered the age of 50. The next thing is whether you have a high level of cholesterol or not, you need to enhance and increase the number of hdl cholesterol over your body. This cholesterol is mostly said as the good cholesterol that helps you to restore the bad cholesterol level in your blood. In this way, you will be well alert for every single unknown condition ever happen to your internal system, so that you can prevent yourself anytime death and it disease such as heart attack come.

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Reduce levels of LDL (bad) is an obsession of many people in this modern age. In addition to leading a healthy and balanced diet, there are other aspects that you can consider if you want to lower bad cholesterol and improve your cardiovascular health: plant sterols. But what are plant sterols?

Although cholesterol is a type of fat that our body needs a certain type of cholesterol (the bad guy, known as LDL) which is responsible for producing arteriosclerosis, ie hardening and narrowing the arteries. Also, know that the majority of cholesterol the body manufactures itself, but there’s a part that we eat, and therein lies the problem.

It is here where they come plant sterols. Let’s say you are natural substances that prevent cholesterol absorption by the body. Thus, adding these substances to your diet provides us with an element that fights cholesterol naturally. Read the rest of this entry »

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This age in which we live is characterized by a return to nature, since there is no better than Mother Nature to give us everything we need. The latest scientific studies have discovered the healing and care of the body that have plants, fruits and flowers, which provide us with all the substances we need to have a healthy life in full comfort. Acai berry is a fruit from the northern countries of South America, more precisely a part of the natural treasures of the Amazon. Aspect is a fruit similar to blueberries with a purple coloration is developed is a palm tree. Recently, the discovery of its powerful properties, there are several products that allow workmanship reach various parts of the globe. The most widely used products are: caps, juice, ice-creams to the body or powder for various uses. Acai berry has great antioxidant, contains various amino acids, proteins, vitamins, minerals, polyphenols, flavonoids. One of the most popular uses is to significantly reduce weight.

featured Acai berry and its different properties
The Acai vitro studies revealed that has a high antioxidant capacity, especially to collect peroxide generated in the process of cellular oxidation, which forms free radicals.

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Cholesterol is a fatty substance that most animal world and the largest from the standpoint of such metabolic precursors of steroid hormones.

This is a plant sterol that has two origin:
- An exogenous origin: Food
- Origin of endogenous biosynthesis. Liver is one of the main sites of synthesis.

Cholesterol is present in all cells. High levels can lead to gallstones or a risk factor for atherosclerosis.

This can take two forms:
- Free form that is not combined with other substances. Cholesterol is located on the surface of lipoprotein
- Esterified forms associated with fatty acid to form steroids. Low hydrophilic character that can exist in several forms and then completely removed.

- Cholesterol is an important component of our cells. This is a fundamental component of cell membranes: a significant portion of cholesterol is used for the formation of the plasma membrane fat layer. It also has a role in membrane fluidity.

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One of the more healthy and interesting ways to combat naturally high cholesterol is using natural juices. These are always interesting allies for the problems associated with rates of hypercholesterolemia, particularly if habitually consumed at breakfast. This recipe is a mixture of grains and fruits that can give a great result if consumed regularly.

Ingredients:

* The juice of a grapefruit
* A slice of pineapple
* Two tablespoons of chia

Preparation:

It is very easy to prepare this juice against cholesterol. Just start by roasting (but not reach burning) chia seeds. Meanwhile, squeeze the juice of the grapefruit and cut the slice of pineapple.

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You can not feel if you have high cholesterol levels in the same way that you feel a headache, but a high cholesterol level in combination with other risk factors can lead to atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease symptoms.

Atherosclerosis is the buildup of cholesterol and fat (fatty deposits or plaques) in arterial walls, leading to the arteries to narrow and harden, losing its elasticity and therefore the movement is difficult.

These fatty plaques can rupture, causing blood to clot around the rupture, and if this happens the blood can not flow to part of the body, triggering the death of tissue.

The following are the symptoms of cardiovascular disease and depend on the degree of arterial narrowing:

• If the arteries of the lower limbs have a limited supply, this can cause leg pain when walking or running and if a clot blocks the vessel, the lack of blood flow can come to the point of requiring amputation.
• In the brain, a blood clot (thrombus) may block an artery or a smaller blood vessel coming to rupture, causing local haemorrhage (bleeding). Either will lead to a stroke.
• In the heart, narrowed coronary arteries cause angina and plaque rupture, causing blood clots that can lead to heart attack or heart function through damage reduced a significant amount of heart muscle.
• If the carotid arteries in the neck become narrow, clots may form passing floats in the brain, resulting in a stroke or repeated ‘mini-strokes “(transient ischemic attacks or TIAs).

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