By Cindy Heller
High cholesterol levels can be a sign of potential heart disease. High levels of HDL cholesterol can be a warning sign of hardening of arteries that can result in heart disease or a heart attack. Even though high cholesterol is a very serious and fatal condition, there are no symptoms to warn you if you are having high cholesterol levels.
To know your cholesterol levels you must take a cholesterol test. As high cholesterol levels can be life threatening, and coronary heart disease is a common occurrence when you have high levels of bad cholesterol you should get a cholesterol test regularly.
Cholesterol is made of two main types: HDL, or the good cholesterol which actually helps prevent heart disease and LDL or bad cholesterol which will clog your arteries and cause heart disease if present in high levels in your body. The right level of cholesterol should be 200mg/dl of LDL or less and at least a minimum of 40mg/dL of HDL or more.
Cholesterol test is done through a blood test that will tell you the levels of both types of cholesterol in your body. This test can be done |
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By Clint Jhonson
Heart diseases culminating in heart attacks, cerebrovascular accidents and peripheral vascular disease are the most common outcomes of an unhealthy life style. But the main cause of these events is an increased level of cholesterol. Hypercholesterolemia is not something we should neglect precisely because the perspectives of leaving it untreated are as serious as possible. To lower cholesterol in due time is to prove we are responsible with respect to our health and, more generally, to our lives.
In addition, a natural cholesterol reduction seems to be the more recommendable than treatments based on prescription drugs. However, people tend to be generally more confident in whatever is offered to them under the name of natural. And, indeed, they are right to trust more natural food, natural remedies, natural processes and natural life styles than their artificially synthesized or unnatural counterparts. With respect to treatments, the thing about prescription drugs is that they work as they are supposed to, but in most cases they endanger our health from a different perspective. In fact, what we do while undergoing a treatment based on prescription drugs is trading our ongoing disease for another possible one. Is this |
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