A healthy low fat diet what else other than tablets can control high cholestrol levels?
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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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Talk to your doctor and find out what your "target" cholesterol level is. This is the starting point. Once you have establishd this, then start thinking about the changes you can make in your life to help bring your number into range. \nDiet plays a big part in cholesterol so consider a meal plan with low-fat / non-fat foods. A registered dietician can assist you in this process. There are also several websites out there that can help. \nSecondly, you may need medication to lower your cholesterol, as diet alone may not be enough. Work with your healthcare team to find a medication treatment that works for you. \n\nGood luck and best wishes
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When you eat, your body converts any food you don't need right away into triglycerides. Therefore, simply reducing the total amount of food you eat would reduce triglyceride levels. In addition to the amount of food, the kind of food matters, too. Avoid sugary foods, since they can raise triglycerides more than other healthy foods. Alcohol also has an even more potent ability to raise triglycerides, so avoid it. The same foods you would eat to be heart healthy (whole grains, low fat dairy, green vegetables) are the ones you would eat to reduce triglycerides. The Mayo Clinic has a wonderful article on this subject; please give it a click.  Good luck. http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/triglycerides/CL00015
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Hello. The recommendations regarding high triglycerides come from a 2001 expert concensus group and are based on the studies from before that time.  The recommendations are fairly straightforward:\n\n- When triglycerides are borderline high (150 to 199 mg/dL) emphasis should be upon weight reduction and increased physical activity. These work wonders, especially in men.  Avoidance of saturated fat and refined sugars helps as well.\n\n- When triglycerides are high (200 to 499 mg/dL), in addition to nonpharmacologic therapy, drug therapy can be considered. The therapy then includes statin drugs to control the LDL and adding a fibrate drug (like Tricor).  Tricor will lower the triglycerides by about 40-50%, but it may be have increased muscle and liver toxicity when administered together with statins like Lipitor.  It absolutely needs to be administered under the supervision of a doctor.\n\n- For triglycerides over 500, the initial goal is to prevent pancreatitis by lowering triglycerides as soon as possible.  Avoid alcohol in this sitation or risk of pancreatitis will go up.  A drug called gemfibrozil (Lopid -- it can also be used in milder cases) is used in these situations.  It has even a higher possibility to cause damage when used together with a statin, so again, monitoirng of liver and muscle funciton is necessary.\nHope that helps!
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Your HDL and triglyceride numbers are very desireable.  It is recommended that your HDL, which is your good cholesterol, be more than 40, with normal ranges being between 40 and 60.  I would not be concerned with the HDL being over 60, since this is the good cholesterol which plays a vital role in keeping your LDL bad cholesterol in check.  It is recommended that tryglycerides be under 150, so this number is also very good.  However, your LDL bad cholesterol is pretty high.  It is recommended that this number be under 100 to be in a healthy range.  I would try diet to reduce it before I got on any medications.  There are those that will tell you that diet has little affect on cholesterol and that your numbers are what they are because of your genetic make up.  Although heredity does play a role, a healthy diet is equally significant and can usually keep cholesterol numbers within disired ranges if you are diligent regarding your dietary intake.  Lots of fruits and vegeatables, lean protien, a moderate amount of fish and nuts to provide omega 3 nutrients which have been shown to help with cholesterol numbers.  If after about 120 days of altering your diet I would consider taking a statin medication if your cholesterol numbers do not show significant improvement..  However, I highly recommend you try altering your diet first, as many statin medications have undesireable side effects.  \n\nI think the reason so many of us take statins is that people do not have the will power and dicipline to eat right.  Simple life style changes can put the stop to most diseases, but most people simply don't have the ability to make them and rely on our pharmaceutical industry to provide a pill for what ever ales them, when in fact they are empowered to heal themselves with life style changes if they simply had the dicipline to make them.
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Lowering triglycerides emphasizes several dietary components.\n\n* Decreasing calories to lose weight if your Body Mass Index (BMI) is 25 or higher. \n* Restricting alcohol \n* Limiting fat to about 35% of calories \n* Decreasing carbohydrate, particularly simple carbohydrate, to no more than about 50% of calories \n* Decreasing saturated fat to less than 7% of calories \n* Limiting dietary cholesterol to less than 200 mg per day \n* Using unsaturated fat to replace saturated fat \n\nEat more fish as the fat in it is of the good sort.  Eat fish that have a short life span like shrimp and salmon as they don't have the mercury problem and fish with longer lives have.  Fish liver oil and flax seed oil are good for you
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High fiber foods. Fiber helps pull cholesterol out of the body. Oatmeal is an excellent breakfast food.\nEat more fruits/veggies, & cut back on your meat consumption, especially red meat.\nDrink more water, & less pop & juice.\nIncrease your whole grain consumption while decreasing refined, white flour products such as white breads & confections & pastries.\nYou would do well to add two supplements to your diet.\nSpirulina is an excellent addition, and so is chromium picolinate. You can find both of these at your local health food store.\nGood luck.
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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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add a good source of Omega 3 fish oil make sure it is pharmaceutical grade,  omega 3 is proven to help lower also soy protein is good in helping lower overall cholesterol.  you can do a search on omega 3's and see all the great things they do.
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Cholesterol lowering medications
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ok, first of all u do not need dairy products, they are bad for your bones if u are no longer a child, exchange those for rice milk, and rice milk ice cream if u must: not soy milk b/c it has more cholesterol than non-fat milk.\neat lots of grains, like brown rice and grain bread with vegetables (preferably raw or slightly boiled/steamed).\nAlso, if u have access to a Japanese or Asian food market get some "Soba noodles" and boil them, they are delicious, and u dont need to drain the water after, u can just make it into a soup with veggies.\nAlso it would be good to get yrself addicted to sushi, preferably sashimi actually (just slices of raw fish).  So maybe u have some sushi-loving friends to help you out to make your own or maybe go out for some! :) I included a link (the 2nd one) of how to make your own sashimi, and note than u should exchange the white rice with brown rice or none at all.\nAlso:\nOmega-3 fish oil tablets to wonders for lowering bad cholesterol\nGarlic extract supplement (liquid)\nCayenne Pepper supplement (pills)\nthese are all perfectly safe and help reduce cholesterol as well as maintainng a healthy heart.\ncheck out the link below for some more cholesterol lowering foods.\nmy father has really bad cholesterol and has had 2 heart attacks in his life, but this new diet has been saving him.
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Recent studies have shown that reducing cholesterol to ultra-low levels with statin drugs can begin to reverse hardening of the arteries.\nOther than that, do not smoke, make sure your blood pressure is under control  and keep your cholesterol down via statins.\nIf diabetic, keep that under control also.
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Homeopathic Treatment for Curing a Potbelly or Help to Loose Weight and to Lower High Cholesterol Levels: -\n1.PHYTOLACCA 30C\n2.PHOSPHORUS 30C\n3.CHOLESTERINUM 30C\nThree Drops Each in a sip of water half hour before meals thrice a day always take them on an empty stomach. And avoid Chocolates Coffee Mints and Red Meat while you are taking any Homeopathic remedy.\nTake care and God Bless!
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1)  Don't smoke or take tobacco products.  2)  Keep your blood pressure down to normal.  3)  If you are diabetic, control it extremely well.  A deficiency of chromium has been proven to cause some type II diabetes.  A supplement of 200 micrograms a day of chromium picolinate will remedy this.  4)  check your cholesterol, your good cholesterol (HDL) and the bad cholesterol (LDL).  You want to maximize the HDL and minimize the LDL.  Also, check the triglycerides, and minimize them.  If fat, you want to get the weight down and keep it down.  Regular exercise, even just walking a mile nonstop 3 times a week will help your cholesterol.  GET OFF ALL trans fats.  Trans fats are partially hydrogenated oils, contained in shortening, margarine, and many processed foods. Keep the total amount of fat in your diet fairly low.  Keep off all trans fats.  Next most important is to keep the saturated fats low.  Then the total fats low.  Don't eat junk food, which is food high in sugar, refined flour, and fat.  Eat lots of whole grain cereals and breads and pastas.  Eat lots of vegetables and fruits, and some lean meats and fish.  5) check your homocysteine level.  If high, take 2 mg of folic acid per day (3 of the big 800 microgram tablets).  6)  If you can't drink alcohol without drinking heavy, then abstain totally from alcohol.  Otherwise, take one or two glasses of dry red wine each evening.  7)  consider taking one adult aspirin per day to reduce blood clots, esp. if over 50 years old or strong family history.  8)  Get plenty of the essential (required in diet) omega 3 oil.  You can do this by eating 3 servings of cold water ocean fish per week, such as salmon, sardines, or white albacore tuna, etc.  or you can take 1-2 tablespoons of cold pressed flax seed oil daily, either added to cold cereal or salad or fruit or mixed into low fat cottage cheese (this is rec. by Dr. Johanna Budwig, the doc who has done extensive research on it.  the cottage cheese provides sulfur containing amino acids which complement the omega 3)  9)  Get plenty of all your vitamins and minerals.  If you eat well, this shouldn't be a problem.  It's hard to get too much vitamin C.  Dr. Linus Pauling, the Nobel winner, recommended 10-15 grams of vit C per day.  1 gm = 1000 mg.  Other important antioxidant vitamins are vit A and its precursor caratenoids, and vit E.  Coral calcium is a good natural source of calcium, as well as all the other minerals.  The bioflavenoids, such as those found in grape seed extract and in elderberry concentrate or wine seem to be important antioxidant vitamins.  10)  Don't get real stressed out!  The old expression about "something breaking your heart" has some truth in it.  11)  Keep your teeth and gums clean.  When you develop rotten teeth and gums, it may somehow spread inflammation to cholesterol placques.  We don't really know, but we do know that inflammation is part of the heart attack condition, of thrombosis of placques.  12) The monounsaturated oils, either olive oil, or canola oil, are considered to be your best oils for cooking, from an arterial standpoint.  I think real butter is better for you than margarine, since it doesn't have any trans fats, but go easy on it.
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Yes, exercise, eating more fruits and vegetables and stay away from fried foods.\nAlso don't eat butter or use a salad dressing that contains fat.\nREAD ALL LABELS at the grocery store before you make a purchase.  Staying healthy starts at the store....have a peek at the fat grams on some of the items for sale - it will astonish you.
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It depends on what your cholesterol levels are and the ratio of HDL to LDL. It also depends on your genetics, do your parents have cholesterol problems, if so this will dictate your treatment plan. In general if you do have an elevated level of bad cholesterol and no family history then there are some steps you can take that may keep you off meds. First the fastest way to increase blood lipids is to eat saturated fats. So limit these to less than 10% of your total fat intake. Second you may want to increase your intake of soluble fiber as this will help eliminate cholesterol thru loss in the feces. Third you may want to investigate the use of natural cholesterol reducers like red yeast or beta sitosterols. By doing the natural things I mentioned it is not uncommon to reduce levels by as much as 15 to 20% and you will not risk liver damage.
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Here are some sites with some examples of menus and other dietary info when trying to lower cholesterol.  There are also a lot of helpful books out there, and you can also see if your doctor can recommend a dietician who can make up some menus for you.\nhttp://www.gicare.com/pated/edtot24.htm\nhttp://www.loweringcholesterol.net/show/low-cholesterol-diet