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Heart disease is one of the top killers of men and women, but even so, there are a variety of things that you can do to prevent heart disease. (…)

No medications can do a better job than treating your high cholesterol naturally. 
What can you do to improve your cholesterol levels? (…)

Normal Levels of Cholesterol
Knowing your levels of blood cholesterol are quite important. (…)

Cholesterol Medications Overview
Note: Even if your doctor prescribes any of these medications, you still want follow through with healthy lifestyle changes that also help lower your cholesterol. (…)

Lower LDL Cholesterol | The Lowdown on LDL Cholesterol
LDL stands for low density protein, and it is what is considered to be bad cholesterol. (…)

Heredity plays a role in high cholesterol.  Your genes can influence your LDL by affecting how fast it is made and removed from your blood.  There is one particular form of inherited high cholesterol that will often lead to early heart disease.  It is called familial “hypercholesterolemia” and can play a role in 1 of 500 people. (…)

Cholesterol Myth: I feel healthy and my doctor has not brought up the subject of cholesterol with me, so I must have good cholesterol. (…)

How To Diagnose High Cholesterol — Are You At Risk? (…)

You’re worried about having high cholesterol and you want to change your diet and your life style so that the risk will go down. 
Sadly, you cannot change everything because there are some uncontrollable risk factors that remain in play. 
Every diagnosis and treatment has uncontrollable risk factors, and the risk factors for high cholesterol is no exception. (…)

If you are eating at McDonalds every day or have a large fat intake through your normal, you are in danger of having high cholesterol. 
What is cholesterol? 
Cholesterol is a waxy substance that is found in certain foods and is produced from your liver. 
The cholesterol helps build up your cell walls so that they have enough durability to pass molecules between the cells and outside tissue. 
Cholesterol actually creates bile salts that are able to help digest and eat up fats. 
Even if you never had a Big Mac or a Burger King whooper, you body would create enough cholesterol to make your body work like it supposed to do. 
So cholesterol is a good thing, but too much of a good thing can turn bad. 

Too much cholesterol can lead to heart diseases which could result in a heart attack, high blood pressure, or a stroke. 
The level of cholesterol in your body can rise to point that the cholesterol in your body will be more of an enemy than a friend. 
To understand where these levels are derived from you have to know a little more about what cholesterol is. 
Cholesterol is a type of lipid. 
A lipid is the name for fats found throughout the entire body.  That means that most of the most of the foods you eat also has cholesterol in it. 
The only foods that are devoid of cholesterol are fruits, vegetables, and grains.  All others have at least a trace amount of cholesterol or a very high amount. 
Fast food and other fatty foods have enough to severely raise your cholesterol level. (…)