Cholesterol Talk!

When it comes to cholesterol, it’s good to know your numbers. High blood cholesterol increases your risk for heart disease and heart attack, and lowering it decreases that risk.
September is National Cholesterol Education Month, a great time to learn about high blood cholesterol, especially if you are among the 65 million Americans who have this [...]

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Nutritionist and author Jonny Bowden has created several lists of healthful foods people should be eating but aren’t. But some of his favorites, like purslane, guava and goji berries, aren’t always available at regular grocery stores. Tara Parker-Pope asked Dr. Bowden, author of “The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth,” to update his list with some [...]

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New studies have shown that diabetes and obese are interlinked to heart diseases. Both mentioned earlier leads to the development of heart disease during their lifetime.
More than 3,400 adults in a long-running U.S. heart study, women who were obese and diabetic had a nearly 80 percent chance of developing heart disease at some point. For [...]

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Cholesterol Talk! has just launched an eBook which is available for download.
The ebook is free of charge to download and is not for sale. ASIAPharm retains all copyrights of the electronic book and is not meant for republication unless given permission to.
Please contact Andrew Peters at andrew@thepacificwest.com for suggestions and feedback.
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Too much LDL cholesterol will lead to an increase in cholesterols to be deposited on the walls of the arteries and forms plaque. This is harmful to one’s health and if were to continue depositing more cholesterols, it will soon block the blood from flowing smoothly through the arteries. This could cause atherosclerosis, simply said [...]

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