Cholesterol is a fatty plaque like substance produced by the liver to maintain healthy cells, insulate nerves and produce hormones, and even helps your body to digest fat.
There is both good and bad cholesterol which means that it is important to understand and be able to make a distinction between each type, and knows how it affects your health.
Equally important is to know the ways and means to control your blood cholesterol level should it be required.
One thing you should know is that cholesterol is not measured depending on your body weight. However, if your body weight is over the normal levels you may be at risk if you have a high bad cholesterol levels
In order to control cholesterol you need to know what the correct levels are for you. You should have at first: a minimum of 40mg/dL or more for the good cholesterol and bad cholesterol should not be over 200mg/dL.
The two kind of cholesterol are (HDL) “high-density liproteins” and (LDL) ” low-density lipoproteins” often known as the bad type of cholesterol because they are guilty of depositing a build-up of cholesterol plaque in the arteries and restricting blood to the heart
One the other hand, (HDL) “high-density liproteins” carries cholesterol away from the cells and back to the liver, where it’s either broken down or excreted. The higher the (HDL) “high-density liproteins” amount, the better
If you have high cholesterol, you would be at greater risk of suffering from heart attacks, heart diseases as well as from strokes. It thus makes it worthwhile to make an effort to maintain proper cholesterol levels, so that you are less at risk with regard to your overall health.
Today’s normal diet can contributes to problems with high cholesterol. Your body makes all the cholesterol it needs in your liver. The cholesterol you don’t need comes from your food intake
Knowing your cholesterol level will help you decide what kind of diet plan you should follow and if you need medication and treatment already. If you know your exact cholesterol status then you can also do something to combat it by learning to quit cigarette smoking and excessive eating of high cholesterol foods.
Smoking and obesity may result in low level of HDL. In order to increase and maintain a perfect HDL level, one should strictly avoid tobacco smoking, and maintain healthy diet and practice exercise on regular basis.
Monitoring your weight is one of the best ways to combat high levels of cholesterol. If you think you are overweight for your age and height, then you should be contemplating on slimming down to be able to decrease your high cholesterol level
Experts believe that if your overall cholesterol level is below 200mg/dl than you have a healthy cholesterol level and are considered to be at low risk for acquiring heart disease.
It is difficult for people to achieve a healthy cholesterol level or keep an acceptable cholesterol level if they eat an unhealthy diet loaded with saturated fats or if they do not get enough exercise.
Author Brian J Worley
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