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7 Keys to Normalize Your cholesterol Level

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Call no.
: 613.2/MIL
Author
: Dr Bruce Miller
Contributor
: Zuriawati Mohamad Laili
Summary
Managing our cholesterol is part of a lifelong commitment to reduce our risk of cardiovascular disease. Therefore, this book gives us a better understanding about cholesterol and teaches us on to lower our cholesterol level to a normal or healthy level through 7 ways: 1. Understand the blood lipid profile – to have a better understanding on cholesterol level reading, lipoproteins, the good side and dark side of cholesterol. The need to have scheduled blood test. 2. Eat heart healthy food – know our fat, understand the saturated/monosaturated/polyunsaturated fats and it sources. Increase soluble fibre in our diet. 3. Increase high density lipoprotein – increase our HDL cholesterol through exercise, get weight down, increase consumption of cold-water fish and soluble fibre; do not smoke/drink alcohol and manage stress. 4. include cholesterol-lowering supplements – to add fibre supplement to our diet, multi-vitamin/mineral, omega-3 fatty acid from fish oil, garlic, soy protein supplement, vitamin E, B complex, calcium etc. 5. include cholesterol-lowering herbs – the writer recommended a short list of herbs such as hawthorn berry extract (an old herbal remedy for heart condition, gugulipid (commiphora mukul) and turmeric. 6. take drugs if need be – if healthy lifestyle and nutrition cannot help to lower our cholesterol to a healthy life, then, take drugs. Get doctor’s advice on which cholesterol-lowering drug or in combination would be suitable for you. However, be caution on side effect of every drug. 7. start loving our heart – commit to live a healthy lifestyle and eat right before resorting to drugs. Have our blood lipid profile taken (as in key#1) to check whether we are headed for a heart attack or will we escape? Then, start the plan as recommended by the writer in his book.