Cholesterol Diet and Some Great Home Cure for Cholesterol - By: dr. sarkozy mikal

Cholesterol is a waxy, fat-like matter that occurs naturally in all parts of the body. Your body needs some cholesterol to work correctly. But if you have too much in your blood, it can stick to the walls of your arteries. This is called plaque. Plaque can narrow your arteries or even block them.

High levels of cholesterol in the blood can increase your risk of heart disease. Your cholesterol levels tend to mount as you get older.

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Cholesterol is different from most tests in that it is not used to diagnose or monitor a disease but is used to estimate risk of upward a disease — specifically heart disease.

Because high blood cholesterol has been associated with hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis), heart disease, and a raised risk of death from heart attacks, cholesterol testing is considered a routine part of defensive health care.

High cholesterol and lipid levels can significantly increase a person's risk of developing chest pain, heart attack, and stroke. Fortunately, a number of effective treatment options are available.

Lipid levels can almost always be lowered with a mixture of diet, weight loss, exercise, and medications. As lipid levels fall, so does the risk of developing coronary heart disease (CHD), as well as the risk of suffering a heart attack.

It is not too late if CHD is already present; lipid-lowering treatment can be lifesaving.

Cholesterol Treatment

Beans - Nutritious and low-cost, beans and other legumes contain a water-soluble fiber called pectin that surrounds cholesterol and chaperones it out of the body before it can cause trouble. Most people would do well to add about 6 grams of soluble fiber to their diet each day.

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Fruit - Fruit also gets the cholesterol-lowering punch from pectin. Grapefruit pectin (found in the rind and flesh) lowers cholesterol an average 7.6 percent in eight weeks.

Carrots - Carrots can lower cholesterol, also by way of their pectin content, In fact, it may be possible for populace with high cholesterol to lower it 10 to 20 percent just by eating two carrots a day.

Exercise - It's possible that exercise can decrease the buildup of cholesterol blockage inside arteries, One of the best ways to raise your levels of protective HDL,is through vigorous exercise, which also modestly lowers your levels of undesirable LDL.

Home Remedies for Cholesterol

1. Take 1 tsp. roasted chicory root, 1 tsp. lime flowers, ½ tsp. fenugreek seeds, ½ tsp. ginger rhizome, and 1 quart of water. Mix them and fetch to boil. Let the boiled mixture cool. Then strain and drink 2 cups a day.

2. Eat a clove of garlic every morning on empty stomach. In fact, the intake of garlic should be increased by adding it to daily food preparations as it lowers LDL cholesterol level and increases HDL.

3. Include ginger in your diet as it also reduce cholesterol and thins the blood which improves its circulation.

4. Take Guggul (Indian bedellium) which reduces triglycerides and LDL by 35% and increases HDL by 20 %. The Guggul extracts are easily obtainable in form tablests and capsules.

5. Eat more of (about 70- 90% of your food intake) raw food. If you can't eat raw, lightly saute the vegetables in olive oil.

6. Eat barley. It’s good if you replace rice with barley.

7. Have oatmeal habitually.

8. Eat apples daily after every meal. Apples contain pectin that lowers cholesterol.

9. Drink fresh fruit juices, particularly carrot, celery, and beet juice.

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