High Cholesterol - its all about Your diet

High Cholesterol - its all about Your diet:

You will find this unhealthy fat in foods that come from animals.
Beef, pork, veal, milk, eggs, butter, and cheese contain saturated fat,
Packaged foods that contain coconut oil, palm oil,
or cocoa butter may have a lot of saturated fat.

You will also find saturated fat in stick margarine,
vegetable shortening, and most cookies, crackers,
chips, and other snacks.

Get smart with your weight:
Your beer belly isn't just bad for your social life,
Being overweight may increase triglycerides and decrease HDL, or good cholesterol,
Losing that gut can go a long way toward improving your beach bod, too.

Keep your activity level Up:
Hey, get off that couch and get moving,
Lack of physical activity may increase LDL,
or bad cholesterol, and decrease HDL or good cholesterol.

Its because of your age & gender:
After you reach age 20, your cholesterol levels naturally begin to rise,
In men, cholesterol levels generally level off after age 50. In women,
cholesterol levels stay fairly low until menopause, after which they rise to about the same level as in men.

Keep your overall health Up:
Don't skip your annual physical, and be sure to have your doc explain your heart disease risk,
Having certain diseases, such as diabetes or hypothyroidism, may cause high cholesterol.

Your also about family history:
Aren't they cute? But they can be dangerous,
even when they're not gossiping about each other,
If family members have high cholesterol, you may also.

Stop Cigarette smoking:
Come on, you already know this one,
Smoking can lower your good cholesterol and it can kill you.

Misc Health News

Some Misc News below...

1. Cancer survivors are likely to suffer serious psychological distress such as anxiety & depression, even a decade after treatment ends, new.
2. Calcium Scan of Arteries Helps Spot Big Trouble - it helps 2 find people with known coronary disease are likely to develop serious problems.
3. Americans spent $33.9 billion out-of-pocket on complementary and alternative medicine in 2007 alone, U.S. health officials report.

Good Healthy News on Twitter

This is a some of the good Tweets I found on Twitter last week:

@WomensHealthMag:
Long day? 20 reasons to be happy (#19: Starbucks gets healthy & #14: Gisele's in Entourage!): http://twurl.nl/zmlcjp

@goodhealthOne:
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Your heart will thank you for it...

Your heart will thank you for it:

• Dark chocolate: The polyphenols contained in the cocoa will cut your risk by 21%,
• Eat Almonds: Every day and it will cut your risk by 12.5%. It’s all down to the vitamin E,
• Red Wine (125ml) will cut your risk by 32%. And that’s all down to the antioxidants it contains,
• Garlic: A couple of cloves a week will cut your risk by 25%,
• Fruits and vegetables: Get your 5 a day, with all those antioxidants, and you’ll cut your risk by 21%,
• Fish the size of a deck of cards 4 times weekly and the omega-3 fatty acids will cut your risk by 14%,

So if I Baked a Salmon with Almonds & Garlic with green vegs, and I have a glass of Red wine and finish with chocolats mousse & fruits = Happy Heart :-)