A disciplined diet can help lower bad cholesterol, but it won’t be easy or fast.
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A disciplined diet can help lower bad cholesterol, but it won’t be easy or fast.
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If you try supplements, you still need to eat a healthy diet, exercise, reduce your stress, quit smoking and get enough sleep. Even then, they may still not be enough.
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A drug called bempedoic acid gives another option for lowering cholesterol in patients who can’t tolerate statin drugs due to muscle pain or other side effects
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A cardiologist says there is a huge amount of data linking higher levels of a little-known cholesterol to strokes and heart attacks.
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Not all high cholesterol foods are bad for you. For example, eggs are high in cholesterol, but they’re also packed with protein and other nutrients. It’s the foods that are high in saturated fat that you need to worry about, because they can raise you
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One minute eggs are good, the next they’re bad: what’s behind the mixed messages and what foods should we eat for good heart health?
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The longer you have high levels of “bad” LDL cholesterol, the greater your risk of a heart attack.
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Late-day exercise had unique benefits for cholesterol levels and blood sugar control, a study of overweight men eating a high-fat diet found.
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There is accumulating evidence that the benefits of statins far outweigh possible risks, and nearly all statins on the market are now available as inexpensive generics.
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As with many other good things in life, this usually helpful protein is best in moderation.
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Having even slightly raised cholesterol in mid-life significantly increases a person's risk of heart disease, research reveals.
For every decade a person has even mildly elevated cholesterol between the ages of 35 and 55, their risk of heart disease could go up by nearly 40%, the study found.
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Dr Shannon Amoils, a senior research adviser for the British Heart Foundation, said: "Although traditionally we think of HDL as 'good' cholesterol, the reality is much more complex.
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A controversial ABC television episode that called cholesterol medication "toxic" could be responsible for causing 2000 more heart attacks and strokes in Australia over the next five years, the Heart Foundation says.