About Eating Beans and lowering Cholesterol Levels
Try eating one-half cup of cooked dry beans every day to help lower total cholesterol levels.  An Agricultural Research Service study in North Dakota added to the already growing body of evidence that beans are healthy for the heart.  The A

Can High Good Cholesterol Be the Sign of a Problem?
The simplistic notion that LDL cholesterol is "bad" and HDL cholesterol is "good" has only one purpose in public health dogma: scaring people into taking toxic statin drugs to lower their LDL cholesterol.  A new study show

Cholesterol Drugs Over The Counter
The trend, nowadays, seems to be for more prescription medicines to be available over-the-counter in pharmacies. Sometimes you can even get them from your supermarket shelves.A few years ago the UK lead the way in allowing one of the choles

Cholesterol is not all bad
Ok, have you heard all the commercials talking about keeping your cholesterol low and how cholesterol is so bad etc... Well, the fact is Cholesterol is essential to all the cells in the human body. Without cholesterol we would not exist to be as w

How To Maintain The Right Cholesterol Levels
Cholesterol is a waxy substance that is found in the body cells and blood. A major amount of cholesterol is produced in the liver and the rest comes from our diet. Cholesterol plays a very important role in the proper functioning of the body li

New links between cholesterol and depression in the elderly
Most people know that high cholesterol levels place them at increased risk for heart disease and stroke. Prior research has shown that particular types of strokes contribute to one's risk for depression, and that abnormal blood lipid levels ca

Steps toward Managing Cholesterol Levels
Cholesterol is a waxy substance made by the liver and supplied in the diet through animal products that include:•    Meats•    Poultry•    Fish•  

The Amazing New World of HDL Cholesterol
The new scientific toolbox is being used to poke around in HDL's house, only to find good news and bad news. HDL has been labeled "good" cholesterol because it helps remove damaged LDL cholesterol from your

The Cholesterol Question
What if I told you tap water and homogenized milk may be two of the biggest culprits in sky-rocketing rates of high cholesterol? Cholesterol is actually being produced by our own bodies all of the time as a natural mechanism to combat oxidation when

Too much selenium can increase your cholesterol
A new study from the University of Warwick has discovered taking too much of the essential mineral selenium in your diet can increase your cholesterol by almost 10%.Selenium is a trace essential mineral with anti-oxidant properties. The bod