Controlling Cholesterol

Controlling your Cholesterol

How you should best control it if you have high cholesterol depends on howhigh it is and why it is so high in the first place.By doing this you will at least be aware ofthe risk of having high cholesterol. You mayalready know that you have it. You may justwant to learn more about it. Either way, youwill need to get a grip on your cholesterol and get informed about controllingit.

You may know that cholesterol plays a significant and decisive role to heartdisease. You probably already know that theprimary cause of heart attack and stroke are clogged arteries, and blood clotsbecause of those arteries traveling to either the heart or the brain, and thathigh cholesterol is what clogs the arteries.You likely already know that it is important to control high cholesterol beforeit gets to be high. If you don’t….nowyou do.

If you have high cholesterol, you are going to want to lower it.If you don't, you want to know how to avoid getting it in the first place.Your first step to control high cholesterol is to establish healthy eatinghabits, healthy exercise habits and healthy drinking and smoking habits.When I say healthy habits there is a meaning to this.

Healthy smoking habits are not smoking cigarettes and cigars that arehealthy it is a fireplace with the vent open, meat or vegetables on the grill, orperhaps fireworks in July. Tobacco smokershave a single advantage over nonsmokers: if they quit they raise their HDLcholesterol levels very quickly, and that's a good thing.Healthy drinking habits are a little less crazy than smoking.Indications today state that a glass of red wine a day actually helps raise HDLcholesterol.

Healthy exercise habits mean regularaerobic exercise at least several times a week.This can be walking for 30 minutes, tennis, running, cycling, volleyball.Whatever you enjoy doing and it gives you a good cardiovascular workout.Healthy eating habits are one of the best ways to control high cholesterol.If you do this it will give you higher HDL and, more importantly, much lowerLDL. What these whole foods do place more emphasison fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes and less on animal products thatare high in saturated fats and they focus less on processed foods.They could mean the difference from you having a heart strong enough body tomaintain it properly.