Reducing your Cholesterol

Advantages: Knowing your body's limits.
Disadvantages: Doesn't work for everyone.

Introducing Cholesterol We have all heard the word "Cholesterol", but how many really know what it is ? More importantly, how many know how to reduce it ? Let's try and explain. Imagine a sink with a drain that never gets cleaned. Imagine the build up of grease in the pipes, and how the pipe becomes clogged and doesn't work as efficiently as it did when it was new. Cholesterol actually needs to circulate in the blood, but excess of LDL cholesterol ...
...plaque on the sides of them, making them not work as efficiently as they should. Blood not being able to flow properly can cause Heart attack or stroke, so it is rather important to know what your levels are, and to ascertain whether your lifestyle contributes to the levels, or whether it is the body itself that is producing the cholesterol excess. When I was diagnosed as having high levels of cholesterol, I decided it was time to take responsibility ... Read review

Advantages: Easy, very flexible and it works!!
Disadvantages: None

...your blood pressure, reduce your risk of having a stroke, reduce your risk of diabetes, reduce your cholesterol levels and reduce any strain on your joints. When you reach your goal weight, which is decided by you, you get a gold key award which you can put on your silver keyring!! You are also entitled to become a Gold Member which means meetings are free of charge as long as you attend your meeting at least 5 times a year, and go no more than 5 pounds over your goal weight. Anyway, go on, give it a go, you've got nothing to lose, except weight of course!!... Read review

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Advantages: The tremendous medical values
Disadvantages: The smell once it has been cooked

...When the word Garlic is mentioned ones mind usually wanders to the pungent and unpleasant aroma associated with it. This is not necessarily true and we should instead look at the enormous benefits associated with Garlic and how we could all take full advantage of its medicinal values. The old sayings of “Garlic is good for your love life” and other ancient folklore, with regards to its benefits, are all being proven correct after evaluation by scientific means. Garlic has been proven to be significantly important as an antibiotic, reducing blood pressure, reducing cholesterol, improving blood circulation, helping with impotency, helping in pregnancy, diabetes, helping the heart, helping against colds and coughs and protection against cancer. Cholesterol ------------- Everyone is aware of the negative aspects... Read review

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Advantages: Can reduce the cholesterol level.
Disadvantages: Cost.Lack of information.

...spreads which both claim to dramatically reduce the amount of the aforementioned chemical in your system. At the present time we are using "Flora Pro-activ", priced at about £1.95 for a 250g tub - that`s roughly 4 x the price of regular sunflower oil spreads. How can they justify this price? Well, they make various claims regarding the dietary benefits that this particular stuff does for you. Evidently, Flora Pro-activ contains plant sterols which have been clinically proven to reduce the amount of cholesterol in the body. These plant sterols are chemically similar to their near neighbour cholesterol, so similar in fact that the body will absorb these compounds in preference , reducing the amount of their evil cousin taken into your circulatory system. Hence the level of harmful cholesterol is gradually reduced in your blood... Read review

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