Lowering of Cholesterol in the Blood
Today
a high level of cholesterol is diagnosed rather frequently.
Those who have an abnormal level of the substance in the
blood should immediately take all necessary actions of its
reduction. Otherwise, they risk having a heart attack. The
measures of lowering your level of cholesterol are rather
different.
First of all, you should change your daily ration. Foods,
which consist saturated fats (e.g. meat products, whole fat
milk, cheese and butter) or trans fats (e.g. pastries, fast
food, cookies) should be avoided or consumed rather
moderately. Besides, you could simply substitute foods with
the mentioned bad fats for those with good fats, i.e.
mono-unsaturated and polyunsaturated fats. These types of
fats could be found in oils and oily fish (e.g. salmon,
sardines, herrings). At the same time the fans of meat and
sweets have to find alternatives. You could replace meat
with soya products and pastries with fruits. Moreover, you
should consume much cereals, which contain soluble fibre
that helps to reduce your level of cholesterol. For instance,
it would be good, if you add beans to soups and eat cereals
for breakfast. Sweet teeth could make their breakfast
cereals tastier by mixing them with fruits. So to speak, if
you want to have a healthy body you should firstly change
your food habits and be more careful by choosing the
ingredients for your meals and cooking them.
Secondly, it’s rather necessary to take exercises,
especially aerobic ones. On the one hand, they stimulate the
work of your heart and lungs, and thus strengthen them. On
the other hand, they help you to lose weight and so make a
risk of getting heart disease much lower. A sound mind could
be only in a sound body.
Thirdly, if you are a smoker it’s rather important for you
to quit. The matter is that smoking, while being a risk
factor for many other diseases, could cause the deposits of
cholesterol in the arteries, what in its turn bring about
heart disease. Furthermore, stopping smoking prevents from
getting a great number of other diseases.
So, if you are really eager to make the level of cholesterol
in the blood normal and have a healthy body and thus feel
yourself well the mentioned lifestyle changes would
significantly help you and prevent from further treatment
and sad consequences.