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Cholesterol Management Can Save Your Life

Nutrition Man — Fri, 22 May 2009 09:09:42 +0000

Cholesterol is a fatty substance that is produced by the liver and is abundant in animal proteins. What makes Cholesterol dangerous for your health is that it is carried in the blood and gets deposited along the walls of arteries, thereby making the flow of blood difficult. The two type of cholesterol are hdl and ldl, the latter being the bad cholesterol.

Watching a diet that contains less animal fat would be necessary to contain the levels of bad cholesterol in the body. That is because the liver can easily produce more cholesterol than your body’s needs. Engaging in exercises will also be helpful in using up the produced cholesterol alongside increasing vegetables, fruit and protein from plants such as nuts.

It is necessary to get checked for the amount of cholesterol in your blood regularly to determine how much exercise you need to do, and the extent to which your diet needs to adjust.

The amazingly gifted amla

Nutrition Man — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:00:16 +0000

Amla is one of the gifted fruits that mankind has got to exploit. Amla is widely used in several ayurvedic medicines because of its richness in natural nutrients. Amla is the richest fruit with vitamins and minerals and in fact, it contains vitamins more than 20 times as than in orange.

Amla has been used as a traditional fruit to reduce the cholesterol levels in blood. One teaspoon mixture of powdered Amla and sugar candy when missed with water serves as an effective medicine against high cholesterol levels. A daily practice of this mixture intake will incredibly help to reduce and stabilize the cholesterol level in blood.

Almonds to reduce cholesterol levels

Nutrition Man — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 10:45:37 +0000

Almonds always had its own places in the pages of history and it is a very good nutritious food that plays a major role in lowering the cholesterol levels. The mono saturated constituents constitute almost 70 percent of the total constituents in almond. This reduces the cholesterol levels of a person.

The mono-saturated fatty acids, proteins etc present in almonds makes it an extremely good food t o fight against diabetes or any heart disease. It is highly recommended by the health experts that it is advisable to have almonds in winter season. This is because; intake of almonds can cause the body heat to rise.