One of the most common health concerns nowadays is high cholesterol. No matter where you are in the world, there are thousands of people who try their best to manage cholesterol levels. It is a condition that does not choose a time or place, financial capacity or social status, and age or nationality. Anybody can get high cholesterol levels, especially since our modern world is a stressful one.
Cholesterol is not bad. It is something that we need so that our bodies can perform essential functions like build cells, produce hormones, and use energy. It comes from two sources: the manufacturing center of the liver and the food that we eat. However, the amount of cholesterol that comes from the liver is dependent on the kind of lifestyle we live (what we eat and what we do), as well as with specific genetic factors. Too much cholesterol is not good because it can clog the arteries and lead to serious health problems.
An individual who has been diagnosed with high cholesterol levels will have to follow doctor’s orders to change his lifestyle. Food intake is controlled to make sure that the patient stays loyal to his low cholesterol and low saturated fat diet, that the patient is encouraged to become more physically active, that he loses excess weight, and that he stops smoking (and drinking).
A high cholesterol patient is also given cholesterol-lowering medications. This (along with the lifestyle change) is important in reducing the patient’s risk for coronary heart disease.
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