Lowering Your Cholesterol
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There is a definite link between cholesterol levels and fatal heart attacks. Just what it should be depends on age and family history as well as lifestyle factors.
<ahref=”http://empowher.com/ask/heart-blood/
high-cholesterol-are-drugs-only-real-treatment”>High cholesterol: Are drugs the only real treatment? | EmpowHer</a><p>I am surprised at this, since I never had high cholesterol before. I just had my 50th birthday and over the last two years have put on a lot of weight due to a depression that went undiagnosed for a while. That is now in the past, …</p>
However, before you dismiss drug treatment, you also need to determine if there is a realistic way of getting your cholesterol down. Many people have a temporary reduction, and flushed with this initial success they then slide into bad habits. More on this topic again.
Your body does need a certain amount of cholesterol when it creates new cells to replace old ones. You can’t live without it - it has a vital role.In fact some people claim it is not quite the bad guy in heart disease by itself.
<a href=”http://mangans.blogspot.com/2008/10/
high-serum-cholesterol-protects-against.html”>Mangan's: High serum cholesterol protects against infections</a><p>Next up in our series of unusual and possibly important papers is one by Uffe Ravnskov, a Danish/Swedish physician and scientist who has made his life’s work the debunking of the cholesterol theory of heart disease. …</p>
