Cholesterol








Heart Healthy Eating		                                                              
     No matter what your age, Cholesterol control is extremely
     important. High cholesterol is a major risk factor for heart
    disease.

    As your cholesterol increases, so does your risk of having
    a heart attack.
Cholesterol is found in every cell in your body as well as in some foods that you eat. Simply put there are  2 types of cholesterol - good (HDL- High-density lipoproteins) and bad (LDL -Low-density lipoproteins ).

A healthy lifestyle allows you to put them in balance and achieve a better reality. Blood tests establish your current levels and influence the plan for change.
But there's good news. You can reduce cholesterol with healthy lifestyle changes. The big choice to be made is that none of it's easy. You need to be sold on the idea, the change is necessary.

You'll need to effect change any way that you can, additional research may be necessary if you are the logical type.
The life style changes may include:
- a loss of weight
- eating heart healthy foods
- exercising more
- quit smoking
- reduce alcohol consumption
- take prescribed medication

Each affecting the other and your levels
  Looking at the list it may seem an impossible task that lies ahead.
 
  Decide that a change is necessary and then take small steps
  to accomplish these new ways of eating, exercising and living.

  Ultimately you will be changing your life and those around you
   as you meet success with the lifestyle changes.

    IT IS POSSIBLE TO ERRADICATE YEARS OF NEGLECT