By now, just about every Marco Island real estate owner has become familiar with the dangers of high cholesterol. Your body creates the waxy substance that can clog your arteries, resulting in a lethal heart attack or stroke. Perhaps the first step to watching your cholesterol is to understand the two different types of cholesterol. Your low-density lipoprotein, or LDL, is your bad cholesterol that flows into your arteries. Your high-density lipoprotein, or HDL, is the good cholesterol that goes to your liver. Besides exercising and eating smart, there are several techniques to safely lower your bad cholesterol.
To begin, drinking a couple glasses of orange juice every day can help to lower your bad cholesterol. Research has found that drinking OJ has caused the dangerous LDL cholesterol levels to drop between 5 and 13 percent in both men and women. At the same time, HDL cholesterol levels shoot up by up to 20 percent.
Be smart about everything that you eat. For starters, always avoid fried foods, as well as butter and sweets. Skip the Burger King and Dunkin Donuts. Instead, you can enjoy some fruits, veggies, and whole grains. Regardless of what you choose to consume, you still have to watch your portion sizes.
Rather than depending on three big meals a day, it helps to rely on six smaller-sized meals. Medical studies have shown that heart disease decreases by up to 20 percent for people eating six small meals every day. Doing so will also help you lose weight, as your body will stay fully energized, and you will tend not to overeat during the day.
Drinking a glass of wine every evening also helps to raise your good cholesterol level. Relying on red wine is much better for cholesterol than white wine. After all, red wine contains a much higher amount of sapiens, a class of chemical compounds that cause positive effects in the human body.
When shopping at the local grocery store near your home for sale in Marco Island or ordering a sub for lunch, always choose whole grain bread over white bread. After all, white bread has too many carbohydrates. However, whole grain bread, as well as brown rice, can increase HDL cholesterol. At the same time, the healthy selections can drastically lower threatening blood fat, such as triglycerides. It is best to choose the lesser of the two evils.
Drinking coffee may already be part of your daily routine. Just begin to rely on paper filters when you brew the beverage. Brewed coffees are known to possess kahweol and cafestol, a couple of ingredients that can raise your LDL cholesterol level. Fortunately, paper filters do not let the two compounds drop into your coffee. Too bad an espresso machine cannot offer the same health benefit. Studies have found that cinnamon actually lowers LDL cholesterol levels in men and women living in Marco Island luxury homes. If coffee is not your drink of choice, a person can always depend on black tea for reducing harmful LDL cholesterol levels.
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