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Top 5 Ways to Prevent High Cholesterol
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Watch Your Diet
Most times too much saturated fat in your diet leads to high cholesterol. Saturated fat forces the body to make more cholesterol than needed. Also, certain foods can help with cholesterol management such as tofu, soy milk, fish, vegetables and fruits.
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Keep A Healthy Weight
Not only is being overweight bad for your cholesterol, but leads to heart diseases as well. By keeping a healthy weight and losing weight, you can lower your low-density lipoprotein and total cholesterol levels and help increase your HDL cholesterol levels as well as reducing your triglyceride levels.
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Exercise Regularly
By exercising, you effectively burn calories, raise metabolism and and lose fat weight. This lowers total cholesterol and increases HDL cholesterol. Mentally and physically, exercise benefits everyone.
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Manage Stress
By exercising, you effectively burn calories, raise metabolism and and lose fat weight. This lowers total cholesterol and increases HDL cholesterol. Mentally and physically, exercise benefits everyone.
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Consider Medication Sometimes, the above methods just do not get your cholesterol into the safety area recommended for most elders. Immediately consult a physician if you think this is the case.
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