Cholesterol Management News, Features & Updates
- Exercises to Control Your Cholesterol
Regular exercise raises levels of good HDL cholesterol, and lowers unhealthy triglycerides. Here’s what type of exercise – and how much – you need to help manage your cholesterol.
- Kitchen Makeover for a Low Cholesterol Diet
Nine steps for a kitchen that makes it simpler to stick to your low cholesterol diet.
- Accurate or Not? At-Home Cholesterol Tests and Blood Pressure Monitors
The advantages and disadvantages of checking your cholesterol and blood pressure with at-home cholesterol tests and blood pressure monitors.
- High Cholesterol: What It Can Do to You
High risk cholesterol is often silent, damaging arteries without symptoms. Do you know the risks?
- The New Low-Cholesterol Diet: Nuts
Nutritionists say that certain nuts deserve an honored spot in the kitchen of every healthy eater (as long as you're not allergic, of course.)
- Cholesterol-Lowering Foods
We all know that butter, ice cream and fatty meats raise cholesterol, but do you know which foods can actually lower it?
- The New Low-Cholesterol Diet: Fatty Fish
The term "fatty fish" may sound unappealing, but actually these are the tastiest and healthiest foods from the sea.
- The New Low-Cholesterol Diet: Oatmeal & Oat Bran
Oatmeal, that sturdy breakfast food from your grandmother's kitchen, has a lot going for it.
- The Baby Boomer Heart: Cholesterol Rising
Nearly one in three Americans have rising cholesterol. The time to act is now.
- Portfolio Diet Yields Lower Cholesterol Levels
Can the Portfolio Diet lower your LDL (“bad”) cholesterol levels? Find out what cholesterol-fighting foods to eat.
- Cholesterol Control: The Alternatives
Doctors call it hypercholesterolemia, but most people know it as plain old high cholesterol.
- Keep the Weight Off
Losing weight was just the half of it. Now you have to keep it off, or those pounds will be back witha vengeance. The stats show for every 20 dieters with initial success, only one continues to deflect the flab. But you can keep your good results if you know what to do. Here's more.
- Facts About Cholesterol
Here is a brief and informative article about cholesterol.