Tag Archives: Cholesterol
Proven Ways To Lower Your Cholesterol Levels
Having raised levels of blood cholesterol is known to be a major risk factor in developing heart disease and suffering premature death. Accordingly, the smart thing to do is to lower your cholesterol to safe levels and there are two methods that will reliably achieve this. These are 1) making a number of lifestyle changes and 2) using cholesterol lowering medication. Continue reading
Cooking Low Carb
Cooking is an art form and cooking can get even more creative in thought and planning when you or someone in your family starts on a diet. The challenge arises when you have to juggle the needs of your whole family with that of a low carb dieter. For this sometimes awkward problem of cooking, low carb recipes are a God send. Continue reading
Is The Atkins Grapefruit Diet Real?
The Atkins Grapefruit diet is a diet plan, not endorsed by the estate of Dr. Atkins, that plays on the popularity of the grapefruit diet and the Atkins diet name. A closer look into this diet shows that it may not be all it claims to be. Continue reading
The Atkins Diet
You have decided that you’re going on a diet and you’ve told yourself that this will be the last one that you’ll ever try. The only reason for this is that you’ve already heard so much about the Atkins Diet, that you have total confidence in its ability to help you reduce weight and to keep it off. You know that with the help of the Atkins diet plan you can tailor make your diet to suit your body and your requirements. Continue reading
Low Carb Vegetables
Any diet that asks you to go low carbohydrate and use only low carbohydrate vegetables is saying that you need to hunt for vegetables that are low in carbohydrates. You need to use these vegetables in stead of your regular vegetables. There are many great tasting things that you can do with low carb vegetables. Continue reading
A Look Into Hypertension and Cholesterol
While a lot of individuals do not understand it, hypertension and high cholesterol have been discovered to be related to one another. There are many issues that can be induced by high blood pressure which had their beginnings in some other issue. For instance, high cholesterol levels can result in high blood pressure, which in turn may cause heart attacks, stroke or a great many other problems such as an artery condition. Continue reading
A Low Carb Cholesterol Diet Can Help Your Cholesterol Reading
Regardless of the generally held view that cholesterol is bad for the body, it is actually vital to the functioning of many parts of the body. In fact, without cholesterol, we would be in serious trouble. Cholesterol is also present in many foods that we eat and this is where the problem occurs. If we eat too many cholesterol high foods or foods that promote the natural production of cholesterol in the body, then problems can arise. Cholesterol consists of two types, HDL, the so-called good cholesterol and LDL or the bad cholesterol. However, since the body produces all the cholesterol it requires, too much cholesterol is unhealthy. The best way to control this is by eating a low carb cholesterol diet. Continue reading
What Is The Cholesterol Normal Range ?
If you have worked hard over the past few months to lower your cholesterol levels, you want to ensure that you keep it within the cholesterol normal range that is considered acceptable. Simply put, in order to stay fit as you age, you will want to continue to monitor your cholesterol levels, eat a proper diet and exercise regularly. Continue reading