can drinking wine reduce your cholestorol?
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Yes in limited amounts.
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Soluble fiber is very good at lowering cholesterol as it binds the bile (a digestive agent) & causes you to excrete it. The body makes more bile (to replace that which was lost - if it wasn't lost, the body tends to recycle bile) from cholesterol. You'll find soluble fiber in foods such as apples, oranges & oatmeal. \n\nInsoluble fiber is also good for your heart, so eat high fiber foods like beans & veggies. Sodium does not affect your cholesterol level, but it can affect heart health so it's best to keep it to a minimum. \n\nA little exercize, such as walking for 30 minutes 3 times a week, will also work wonders. If you eat a Whte bread, try to switch to something like Nature's Own White Wheat, which has lots of fibre. Try & drink fat-free or 1% milk instead of whole milk. A lot of little life-style changes will go a long way. \n\nCertain spices like hot peppers (capsaicins), turmeric (curcumin) & cinnamon can help reduce cholesterol. \n\nHowever, if your cholesterol is severely out of control, consult your physician. Statins work wonders
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Garlic helps maintain healthy cholestorol, using mono-unsaturated oils in cooking (like olive and canola) can help raise LDL and lower HDL. Oatmeal, eatten regularly can actually help lower HDL.\n\nAlso eatting fish high in escential fatty acids, like Salmon, Yellow Fin Tuna, Swordfish...etc, can also help lower HDL.
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Take less oily FOOD AND EGGS.HERBAL PRODUCT FOR CHOLESTEROL REDUCTION WILL HELP.ASH  YOUR LOCAL PHARMACY
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Wine is considered by most to be dangerous to your health.  It does have some soothing aspects for the stomach.  However, in the US, too much and driving is becomes legal issues.  So better to avoid wine, which can lead to alcholism and harsher liquors.  Stick with natural juices, water and tea!
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There are a few different cholesterol lowering agents that work by different mechanisms.  The issues surrounding the medicinal control of cholesterol and serum triglyceride are exceedingly complex.  Frankly, this stuff gives me a headache to think about and I'm glad I don't do internal medicine for a living! \n\nIt helps to know a few things about cholesterol in the body first.  For example, there are two basic ways in which cholesterol comes to be inside the body.  One is by way of dietary intake, and the other is through the liver's synthetic function.  Also, it is valuable to understand how cholesterol gets out of the body.  One way is that cholesterol is the starting material for a number of biochemical processes like making hormones (this is why they're called "STERoids" - they're made from, and are similarly shaped molecules to choleSTERol!!)  Another way that cholesterol leaves the body is by secretion into the bile system and then exiting the body by way of the intestine.  However, bile is actually re-used.  Bile is reabsorbed in the intestine with the food molecules and the re-used bile is then filtered out of the blood and put back into the liver and then the bile system.\n\nThere are two basic strategies by which medication can decrease cholesterol that I am aware of.  The older method involves increasing the rate of cholesterol elimination.  A class of medication known as "cholesterol binding resins" exists, and includes drugs like "cholestyramine" and "cholestipol".  These agents are indigestible and they stay inside the intestine without absorbing into the body.  They pass through and are eliminated.  However, along the way, they chemically bind the bile that would otherwise be reabsorbed into the blood.  The bile is rich in cholesterol.  Because the bile is normally reabsorbed with about 95% efficiency, this chemical binding represents a huge loss of systemic cholesterol, and the body responds by turning more cholesterol into bile.  The cholesterol level is lowered.  Other drug strategies exist which do the same thing, like a combination of the vitamin "niacin" and the antibiotic "neomycin".  Together, these medications can seriously lower bile reabsorption and lower systemic cholesterol.  Neomycin is very upsetting to the intestine and causes nausa.  Therefore, this is not a commonly used strategy.\n\nThe second strategy, developed over the last 15 years, is to inhibit the manufacture of cholesterol in the liver.  Every biochemical that is made within the body requires multiple steps in its production.  Typically, one step in the process is the "key" which is responsive to blood levels.  When blood levels go low, the key step is turned up, and when blood levels get high, the key step is turned down.  It's like the gas and brake on a car.  \n\nThe key step in cholesterol manufacture involves an enzyme called "HMG-CoA Reductase".  A class of medications called "HMG-CoA Reductase Inhibitors" exists which blocks the regulated step of cholesterol manufacture.  This is the class of medication that everyone calls STATINS.  They carry chemical names like "lovastatin", "atorvastatin", "pravastatin"... etc.  \n\nIt turns out that the benefits of the statins are multiple.  Not only do they lower cholesterol, but they generally affect the levels of the various kinds of serum lipids in a favorable way.  In addition, they are directly associated with improvements in vascular diseases and heart attack, which is the real end point that everyone is interested in (it wouldn't do to lower cholesterol unless lowering cholesterol made you more healthy!).  We even have information now that if you put someone on a statin before they undergo surgery, they'll be less likely to have certain kinds of complications after the operation!  \n\nThe most important first step in lowering cholest
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Yes, it can. Drinking one glass of red wine a day is good for you. \nBut really you should eat oatmeal everyday and cut out any processed meats and foods high in fat, salt, and sugar. Exercise also works. \nYou can also take diuretics like Diurex at walmart. But always talk to your doctor before changing your diet or taking any type of supplements while on any prescribed medicines. These lifestyle suggestions I have given could alter your blood pressure and make your current medication to strong for you, causing you to be hypotensive instead.
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NO. THAT'S WRONG. Drinking 1 ounce of red wine can keep heart problems away because of its phytochemical (antioxidants, taninos). But this doesn't apply to any other liquor or alcohol. So forget about beers, whiskey, tequila, etc. They will only make you gain fat.
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To reduce Serum Cholestrol without medication, adopt a lifestyle that is conducive to normal blood lipids. What’s normal? Total cholesterol (T-Chol) less than 200 mg/dl, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-Chol)--the “lethal cholesterol”--less than 100 mg/dl, and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-Chol)--the “healthy cholesterol”--more than 40 mg/dl. \n\nHere are the top 10 ways to improve your cholesterol levels. \n1. Decrease saturated fat intake. Saturated fats are found in all meats, skin from poultry, and tropical oils such as palm and coconut oil. Hydrogenated fats also count as saturated fat. You can’t eliminate them completely, but work at reducing the amount you eat.\n\n2. Decrease refined carbohydrates. When you eat too many refined carbohydrates (such as those in cake, candy, cookies, soda, and pasta), they can be converted to saturated fat by the body, and that can raise cholesterol levels.\n\n3. Increase fruit and vegetable intake. Research shows that as the servings of fruits and vegetables increase, T-Chol and especially LDL decreases (1). Your mother was right: eat your veggies!\n\n4. Eat 2-3 servings of cold-water fish such as tuna, salmon, or sardines every week. The omega-3 fatty acids help reduce cholesterol levels. Just don’t deep-fat fry the fish or add a lot of mayonnaise to your tuna salad.\n\n5. Exercise regularly. This is the only sure way to increase HDL-Chol levels. The more intense the exercise, the more HDL-Chol levels go up.\n\n6. Quit smoking. Cigarette smoking raises T-Chol and destroys HDL-Chol. Find a way to quit--whatever it takes--but do it.\n\n7. Take a fish oil supplement every day. Omega-3 fatty acids, specifically the EPA found in fish oil, can help lower cholesterol levels; a good target is 2-3 grams per day. Taking more should be done only after consulting with your healthcare professional.\n\n8. Drink green tea every day--hot or cold--or take a dietary supplement with the phytonutrient theaflavin in it. Both have been shown to lower cholesterol--especially LDL-Chol (2).\n\n9. Add almonds and plant sterols to your diet every day (3). Almonds contain omega-3 fatty acids and are high in fiber. Plant sterols are found in margarines such as Smart Balance.\n\n10. Use psyllium fiber three times per day. Recent research has shown that the fiber in Metamucil and similar products can lower both T-Chol and LDL-Chol--and constipation will be the least of your problems!\n\nHere’s a bonus: if you have weight to lose, lose it. Carrying extra body fat sets the body on a cycle of producing more saturated fat and subsequently more cholesterol than we need. You can lower your cholesterol without losing weight, but it’s easier if you do.\n\nTwo things: work with your doctor as you make these lifestyle changes. Getting serum lipids tested regularly is very important so that you’ll know what is and isn’t effective. Your physician should know what you’re doing to deal with the issue. \n\nSecond, and most importantly, if you’ve done all you can and your cholesterol is still too high, discuss taking a medication such as a statin to lower it. It’s more important to get your cholesterol in the normal range than it is to be stubborn about taking medications. \n\nReferences:\n1.Djousse, L., et al. Fruit and vegetable consumption and LDL cholesterol: the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Family Heart Study. Am J Clin Nutr. 2004; 79(2):213-7. \n2.David J. Maron, et al. Cholesterol-lowering effect of a theaflavin-enriched green tea extract: a randomized controlled trial. Arch Intern Med; 2003.163(12):1448-53. \n3.Jenkins DJ, et al. Effects of a dietary portfolio of cholesterol-lowering foods vs. lovastatin on serum lipids and C-reactive protein. JAMA. 2003;290(4):502-10.
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There are a number of stories in The Coconut Diet from people who have actually seen their cholesterol -- LDL and triglycerides -- go down and HDL (the good cholesterol) go up with The Coconut Diet.\n\nThe cholesterol-lowering fiasco for a long time centered on the ability of unsaturated oils to slightly lower serum cholesterol. For years, the mechanism of that action wasn't known, which should have suggested caution. Now, it seems that the effect is just one more toxic action, in which the liver defensively retains its cholesterol, rather than releasing it into the blood. \n\nLarge scale human studies have provided overwhelming evidence that whenever drugs, including the unsaturated oils, were used to lower serum cholesterol, mortality increased, from a variety of causes including accidents, but mainly from cancer. \n\nSince the l930s, it has been clearly established that suppression of the thyroid raises serum cholesterol (while increasing mortality from infections, cancer, and heart disease), while restoring the thyroid hormone brings cholesterol down to normal. \n\nIn this situation, however, thyroid isn't suppressing the synthesis of cholesterol, but rather is promoting its use to form hormones and bile salts. When the thyroid is functioning properly, the amount of cholesterol in the blood entering the ovary governs the amount of progesterone being produced by the ovary, and the same situation exists in all steroid-forming tissues, such as the adrenal glands and the brain. \n\nProgesterone and its precursor, pregnenolone, have a generalized protective function: antioxidant, anti-seizure, antitoxin, anti-spasm, anti-clot, anticancer, pro-memory, pro-myelination, pro-attention, etc. Any interference with the formation of cholesterol will interfere with all of these exceedingly important protective functions.\n\nAs far as the evidence goes, it suggests that coconut oil, added regularly to a balanced diet, lowers cholesterol to normal by promoting its conversion into pregnenolone. \n\nCoconut-eating cultures in the tropics have consistently lower cholesterol than people in the U.S. Everyone that I know who uses coconut oil regularly happens to have cholesterol levels of about 160, while eating mainly cholesterol rich foods (eggs, milk, cheese, meat, shellfish). I encourage people to eat sweet fruits, rather than starches, if they want to increase their production of cholesterol, since fructose has that effect.\n\nMany people see coconut oil in its hard, white state, and -- as a result of their training watching television or going to medical school -- associate it with the cholesterol-rich plaques in blood vessels. Those lesions in blood vessels are caused mostly by lipid oxidation of unsaturated fats, and relate to stress, because adrenaline liberates fats from storage, and the lining of blood vessels is exposed to high concentrations of the blood-borne material. \n\nIn the body, incidentally, the oil can't exist as a solid, since it liquefies at 76 degrees. (Incidentally, the viscosity of complex materials isn't a simple matter of averaging the viscosity of its component materials; cholesterol and saturated fats sometimes lower the viscosity of cell components.) \n\nMost of the images and metaphors relating to coconut oil and cholesterol that circulate in our culture are false and misleading.
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Exercise to reduce your LDL level and increase your HDL level \nDrinking a small amount of alcohol may raise your HDL level and lower your LDL level, but more than two drinks could have the opposite effect \nMaintain an appropriate weight \nStop smoking \nless stress\nsome says garlic but not sure
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Artichoke juice has been proven to reduce high LDL cholesterol.\n\nShrimp and other shellfish are fairly high in cholesterol; however, they are low in saturated fat. Therefore, these foods can be eaten in moderation -- even if you have high cholesterol.
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They are known to lower cholesterol, but remember, they are not "regulated" like a standardized dose of cholesterol reducing medicine is. . .so you run the risk of "over-dosing" with all of the bad effects on the liver. (an organ too precious to hurt!)
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Not really.  There are medications you can take for reducing your cholesterol.  Also watching the type of food you eat and getting more exercise can reduce high cholesterol levels.  There are plenty of web sites that will give you advice.\n\nHere is just one of them....\n\nhttp://heart.healthcentersonline.com/cholesterol/?WT.srch=1\n\nIf you do a Google search you will find plenty more.
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Red wine protects the heart\nNew Haven, Conn.--A review article of the latest studies looking at red wine and cardiovascular health shows drinking two to three glasses of red wine daily is good for the heart, according to a Yale School of Medicine researcher in the Journal of American College of Surgeons. \n"The current consensus is that it is not just the alcohol, but something else," said Bauer Sumpio, M.D., professor and section chief of vascular surgery in the Department of Surgery. "There are probably several mechanisms of protection from a cardiovascular viewpoint." \n\nHe said researchers have been trying to pinpoint why red wine has a cardiovascular protective effect ever since the discovery of the so-called "French Paradox" in 1992 when researchers found a 40 percent lower mortality rate from ischemic heart disease among people in France despite the high amount of saturated fats in their diet. \n\nSumpio said there are several studies showing drinking two to three ounces of alcohol each day has a beneficial effect, but any more than that and the alcohol begins to have a negative health effect. Studies comparing spirits, beer and wine show some benefit from spirits and beer, but an overwhelming benefit from drinking red wine. \n\nHis laboratory found polyphenols, minus the alcohol, are powerful anti-oxidants. Polyphenols also are found in fruit, particularly berries, as well as green tea and chocolate. Anti-oxidants slow cell deterioration. The polyphenols also help prevent the build up of plaque on the smooth muscle cells, as well as inhibit platelet formation, which can lead to blood clotting. \n\n"A better understanding of the health benefits of red wine and perhaps the specific polyphenolic extracts with the described properties would be a great contribution to society," Sumpio said.
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Are you eating cheese dairy or eggs? Remember these products are loaded with cholestrol also they are not vegetarian as some people think, because they do not grow in vegetation.The only why you can get cholestrol is by eating animal products. lf you were totally vegetarian there would be no way your cholestrol could go up. Cheese is extremely dangerous especially woman. It will cause breast cancer, osteoporosis or arthritis. To find out more about the dangers of eating dairy go to nomilk.com
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actually you can have a blockage and your cholestorol be very low.  Some people have clotting factor issues with their blood and it causes blockages very easy.  I would definately talk to you doctor and see if there are ways to help control this.  33 years old is too young to be having these kinds of issues.