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High Cholesterol and Children

There is more and more evidence that high cholesterol and the build up of plague in the inside of your arteries can begin at childhood.  This would lead to heart disease and other coronary problems later down the road as an adult. 
Heart disease is still responsible for four hundred and fifty thousand deaths a year in the United States.  Thirty percent of this number had a heart related disease or a heart attack below the age of sixty five.  A good percentage of these patients have children that could be at risk for an early heart attack, stroke, or death. (…)

The Symptoms and Diagnosis of High Cholesterol
There are usually no symptoms that come with getting high cholesterol. That is the scary part when you don‘t know. (…)

Avoid Foods that are High in Cholesterol and Fat

Trying to avoid foods that are high in cholesterol can be difficult.
Most of the foods that taste the best to us are probably high in cholesterol. (…)

Some Doctors Think High Cholesterol is Good
Any issue in which the government or the medical communities makes a claim that a substance could be damaging to your health is always challenged by a plethora of doubters, unbelievers, and conspiracy theorists.  The internet is full of these stories and cholesterol is among the pages that disclaim that high cholesterol can hurt you.  Thousands of studies on cholesterol can’t be wrong, but there are people out there, even in the medical community who believe that the cholesterol hype is just a story to get you to buy certain foods and supplements.  They believe that is the government’s way of controlling our lives. (…)

How to Test for High Cholesterol? (…)

Lecithin Claims Regarding Lowering Cholesterol
Some people do not like the traditional medical methods of lowering cholesterol.  They either believe that if the disease can be controlled using natural substances, then it is better than putting chemicals in their body. 
One natural approach to lowering cholesterol is a supplement called Lecithin. 
Lecithin is a phospholipids that is produced in the live and can be found in different locations of the body each containing a different amount.  There is an especially a lot of lecithin found around the nerve sheaths and the brain.  Lecithin is a fatlike substance that helps emulsify fats.  The location around the brain and nerves has been found beneficial because lecithin has a B vitamin that manufactures nerve transmitters. (…)

Omega 3 Fats and Cholesterol
Omega 3 fats are a type of essential fatty acid that is required for healthy functioning of the human body.  Specifically, Omega 3 fats maintain the health of cell membranes, nerves, portions of the brain considered ‘grey matter’ and the cardiovascular system. 
Of these various elements, the affect of Omega 3 fats on the cardiovascular system has garnered the most attention by the medical community at least recently.  Omega 3 fats are so powerful they can actually help to prevent heart attacks by reducing the prevalence of inflammation and blood clots within the heart’s vessels. (…)

What Is Cholesterol? (…)

Cholesterol Words Defined
As you begin to lower your cholesterol,  you will probably feel like you are having to learn a foreign language. (…)