Health & Fitness

The amount of cholesterol in your body determines your health. There’s the bad cholesterol and the good cholesterol, and how much of both is present in your body, whether it is good or bad, is often influenced by your lifestyle and eating habits. Too much of fats in the diet and lack of exercise or inactivity is always a bad combination, one that can lead to high levels of bad cholesterol. The treatment or management for this may therefore include careful management of diet and, possibly, a change in the lifestyle.

A low fat diet coupled with an intake of the different forms of Vitamin B, except niacin, may help decrease the amount of bad cholesterol or LDL (low density lipoproteins), in the body. Whole wheat, oatmeal, whole brown rice, soybean, milk, black strap molasses, fish, chicken, broccoli, and spinach, are all excellent sources of Vitamin B, so have these in your kitchen cupboard most of the time.

Dietary fiber can also reduce the levels of bad cholesterol by binding to the molecules of cholesterol, thereby preventing it to be absorbed in the blood stream. You can get fiber from products such as vegetables, fibrous fruits and whole grains.

Garlic, grape seed, royal jelly, chromium, Vitamin C the q10 coenzyme, and pantothine, too, can help decrease bad cholesterol levels.

While there is bad cholesterol, there is also good cholesterol. High levels of good cholesterol or HDL (high density lipoprotein) usually signal a drop in bad cholesterol levels. So if you want your bad cholesterol levels to decrease, simply up your good cholesterol levels by including Carnitine in your diet, for example. It is therefore a good idea to stock yourself with carnitine-rich foods such as meat, fish, poultry, dairy products, soybeans, asparagus, wheat, avocados, and peanut butter.

Aside from all these dietary supplements, another effective way of lowering bad cholesterol levels is through exercise. What exercise does is it actually lowers the amount of triglycerides in the bloodstream, thus converting bad cholesterol into good cholesterol.

It always pays to be healthy at all times. So, in the event that you become afflicted with high cholesterol levels, stay away from fast foods as much as possible, avoid anything that is fried, especially French fries and fast food burgers, eat more of those foods that can flush the bad cholesterol out of your system, and keep your body moving. Manage your cholesterol well with these alternative treatments for a healthier you!

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