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We always heard that cholesterol is bad for our body, but we have to be specific here, because there are two different cholesterols in our body, the good one and the bad one. HDL cholesterol plays important roles as the building up of cell membranes, which is mean the basic source of our live. LDL cholesterol is bad cholesterol; they are the major cause of blocked arteries walls.

To stay healthy, you need high level of HDL and low level of LDL, and there are some ways to keep the amount of HDL high. Balance diet by eating healthy food and cut your food fast consumption is a great start. Fast food contains with unhealthy ingredients, and you need to consume more healthy food like vegetables, fruit and protein-based food.

For busy people, it is hard to find free time to do exercise or find healthy food as their lunch or dinner; they need better and practical choices like cholesterol supplements. Green tea is popular drink that famous for its great source of antioxidants, and antioxidants has great benefits for your heart health. Green tea also can help to prevent dangerous disease like cancer, what you need is a regular portion of a cup of green tea regularly.

content in milk and its benefits for pregnant women and their fetuses

Milk contains proteins that function:
-Build and repair body tissues (muscle, bone, skin eye heart and liver)
- Assist the formation of blood, amniotic fluid and placenta
- Build antibody
- It takes as much as 60 grams of protein per day
- Source of protein other than milk: beans, tofu
Milk also contains calcium that serves:
- Form the baby’s bones and teeth Ation-prepare Blood-freeze Calcium-keeping itself, because if pregnant women do not consume calcium, then the baby will take calcium from the mother’s body which may cause mothers at risk of osteoporosis
- Need 1000 mg calcium
-Sources of calcium besides milk: cheese, green vegetables, fish
Milk also contains vitamin D function:
- Assist the absorption of calcium in the blood for bone formation and tissue baby
- Sources of vitamin D than milk: egg yolks, tuna, morning sun for 15 minutes
Milk also contains iron to function:
- Forming red blood cells for mothers and infants to prevent anemia
- The needs of 30-60 mg iron
- A source other than milk: meat (beef, chicken, fish), nuts, oysters
Milk also contains vitamin A function:
- Assist the formation of bone and tissue in infants (teeth, hair, nails, vision)
- Forming at the gum enemel
- Form a defense against infection
- Need for vit A 5000 IU
- A source other than milk: fruits, vegetables, egg yolks, butter

People will realize that their life can be more beautiful when they start to consume high cholesterol supplements. It is not that hard to choose healthy life style as there are too many risks that people can get when they suffer from high cholesterol. High cholesterol used to occur only to elder people.

However, unhealthy life styles are applied everywhere, high cholesterol now attacks a lot younger people causing terrible health troubles such as strokes, heart attacks, and chronic heart diseases. All of them are dangerous and can cause death. They are dangerous diseases that people normally cannot see the symptoms. People do not even realize that they suffer from high cholesterol troubles until their doctor deliver bad news for them to face.

Most people are confident with their health. When they rarely get troubles with their health, people often forget that maintaining health is more important than anything. It is like investment. If people do not start earlier, they will regret that they have to suffer from difficult process of lowering their cholesterol.

For those who are too busy with their official tasks, health will even become something trivial. Those people will get their cholesterol higher each year that when they feel that they cannot breathe properly, only exercise and high cholesterol supplements can help them to solve their health trouble.

Vitamin E acts as an antioxidant protecting LDL lor damage caused by free radicals (oxidation). Studies have shown that LDL has a greater tendency to clog the arteries when oxidized by free radicals as well as when you smoke. In a recent survey of doctors (6) found that vitamin E is the most widely used by cardiologists at a dose of 400 IU per day for protection against heart disease.

Among the prescription medications, statins are the group of cholesterol-lowering medicines, including Baycol, Lescol, Lipitor, Mevacor, Pravachol and Zocor. Read the rest of this entry »

Soybean Oil and Sterols

Soy protein lowers cholesterol, particularly when it replaces animal protein (3). The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently enabled products high in soy protein may indicate that can help reduce the risk of heart problems.

The role that can meet the isoflavones in soybeans are still under investigation. A study published in June 2000 in the journal Clinical Nutrition (Journal of Clinical Nutrition), show that isoflavones reduce bad cholesterol (LDL) by up to women in good health (4).

Regular consumption of products containing sterols have shown a 10% reduction in total cholesterol and LDL, while products containing stanol this reduction is 14%. These compounds block the absorption of cholesterol in the digestive tract, possibly through competition for absorption. Read the rest of this entry »

The French Paradox and Flavonoids

Some think that the French paradox is explained by the consumption of wine. Several studies have shown that moderate consumption of alcohol can raise HDL (good cholesterol). Research suggests that the increase in antioxidant flavonoids in red wine offers additional protection.

In a clinical trial at the University of Scraton, in which people with high and low cholesterol were given 600 mg/day of an extract from grape seeds, there was a 9.2% reduction in bad cholesterol (LDL) in persons normal and 12.3% in total cholesterol in people with high cholesterol. This study was presented at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society on March 27, 2000 in San Francisco and will be also presented in full in 2000 Pacifichem meeting on 15 December in Hawaii. Read the rest of this entry »

Many people are killing their cholesterol levels simply by how they eat. Eating fast food all the time is a murderer when it comes to cholesterol, however, is not the only type of food that requires care.

Restaurants and grocery stores compete for a “portion of the stomach” and strive to provide finite amounts of food to consumers. Increasingly, medicines, food supplements and compete for a “portion of health services” as consumers choose among those options to cure a medical problem. Read the rest of this entry »

How to moderate their consumption of dietary fats?

According to the 1988 report of the National Research Council (National Research Council) Designing Foods (How to design food) 58% of total fat and 75% from saturated fat in the diet of any average American is of animal origin. The main animal sources of fat include red meat, chicken and fish, milk and dairy products and eggs.

In addition to the direct consumption of meat products, fat is also consumed in fried foods and other products such as butter, margarine, dairy products, cheeses, nuts, baked goods, salad oils, animal fat or vegetable mayonnaise , salad dressings, toppings for cakes and pies, and sauces. Read the rest of this entry »

Hydrogenation

Because all fats, especially unsaturated fats, have a tendency to decompose when exposed to air, food manufacturers should be hydrogenated to achieve greater stability.

Hydrogenation is the process by which hydrogen molecules are added directly to foods containing unsaturated fatty acids, for example, to convert vegetable oils into semi-solid substance such as margarine. The use of this process came in response to the recommendations of the public health department, which means you must reduce the saturated fat in the diet.

Developed in the early twentieth century, the process of hydrogenation properties granting important contribution to food texture. The degree of hydrogenation can help influence the firmness and softness of margarines, as mass crunch cake and the creaminess of the dessert. Sometimes, hydrogenated oils are used in place of other fats containing higher proportions of fatty acids such as lard. Read the rest of this entry »

Dietary fat is a vital nutrient that helps promote a healthy lifestyle.

Like carbohydrates and protein, dietary fats are an important source of energy for the body. Fat is the most concentrated source of energy in the diet, providing nine calories per gram against the four calories per gram provided by carbohydrates or protein.

Dietary fats supply the body with essential fatty acids such as linoleic acid, which is especially important for children to have adequate growth. In addition, fat is necessary for the maintenance of healthy skin, for the regulation of cholesterol metabolism and as a precursor of prostaglandins, hormone-like substances that regulate some body processes. Read the rest of this entry »