The Benefits of Fruits

Fruits have many benefits to us. I love fruits because it's not only delicious and healthy, fruits also help us to prevent disease. These are some fruits that have great benefits : GrapeIf you would like...

The Natural Wonders of Garlic

Garlic is part of the onion family. It is believed that garlic originated in Siberia and then it spread to Europe. What makes garlic so healthy? Garlic contains allicin, a powerful medicinal compound....

How to increase your good cholesterol

Cholesterol is lipid present only in animal tissues such as meat, egg yolk, and dairy products. It can exist in free form or can be esterified with a fatty acid. Cholesterol per se is not good or bad. The so...

All About Cholesterol

Cholesterol is an odorless tasteless, white fatty alcohol (sterol) found in all animal tissue. It is an essential component of all cell membranes and is vital to cell survival and growth. Although...

High Cholesterol, Will It Kill Me Doc? Could I Have a Heart Attack?

Inherited abnormalities of lipid metabolism may be better predictors of heart disease risk and of response to treatment. These abnormalities are usually missed in commonly available blood test results and should be tested using the Berkeley Labs or VAP testing methods. Family members need to be tested for risk and to council for the prevention of heart disease to reduce the need for expensive medications, angioplasty and bypass surgery while saving millions of health care dollars in the long run

Your LDL cholesterol reading may be 40 points off

As you are probably aware, cholesterol is neither good nor bad. There is the "good" or high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, and the "bad" or low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol. Given that...

Cholesterol Foods

What Do I Need to Know About My Cholesterol?

Cholesterol is essential to life. It is a type of fat made by the liver and found in all animal cells. We get less than 1/3 of cholesterol from the foods we eat. Even though about 33% from diet may not sound...

Understanding Normal Cholesterol Levels

People are concerned about their health these days. One of the indicators of good health is whether you have normal cholesterol levels. If you have cholesterol levels that are too high you run the risk of...

Side affects of Diabetes

There are many affect of diabetes most people that have had little contact with someone suffering from the desease (condition) seem to think diabetes only affect you in one or two way. I have wrote this hub...