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Cholesterol Reduction - Great News for Tea Drinkers

Your chest feels tight. Then a pain begins. You feel short of breath and every movement makes it worse. You are experiencing a coronary. Thankfully you survive and start to think about what went wrong and to find ways of adjusting your lifestyle. You may even require bypass surgery or to be on drugs for the rest of your life. Cholesterol is a major factor leading to coronary th...
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But Won't Eating Chicken and Fish Lower My Cholesterol?

Most people and many health experts believe that cholesterol will be lowered by substituting chicken, turkey, and fish for red meat. So instead of eating steak and potatoes for dinner, they change their eating plan to chicken and potatoes. Instead of eating a roast beef sandwich, they eat a turkey sandwich. Instead of ...
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Cholesterol - Good, Bad...Huh?

What IS Cholesterol? Cholesterol is a soft, waxy substance that's stored in the fat (lipid) content of one's blood stream. It's actually important to have a certain amount of "good" cholesterol in one's system. Cholesterol, and our other body fats, cannot dissolve in our blood. They must be transported by special carriers called lipoproteins. While there are numerous ki...
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Lower Your Cholesterol By Sowing Your Oats

It's an excellent time of life for baking your favorite high-fiber cookies. It may seem like a gustatory contradiction. How can a cookie taste delicious and be nutritionally high in dietary fiber? High fiber foods and high fiber diets have become part of our everyday language as we become more proactive in our everyday health. Fiberlady wants you to discover the benefit...
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Plant Sterols a Solution for Lowering LDL Cholesterol

Plant sterols or stanols are synthesized only by the plants and they very similar in structure to human cholesterol. Stanols differ structurally from cholesterol by a methyl or ethyl group in their side chains that are not produced in the human body. These structural differences make them minimally absorbable by intestine. On the other hand, plant sterols generate an inhibiti...
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