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There are opinions in the medical community, the higher the level of HDL (good cholesterol) and lower levels of LDL (bad cholesterol), the better his / her health condition. Normal limits usually used are: LDL level should be less than 100 mg / dL, whereas HDL levels are generally preferred for more than 50 mg / dL. Total cholesterol level less than 200 mg / dL.
In addition, the ratio of LDL to HDL (the number of your LDL divided by the number of HDL) should be maintained at 4.4 or less.
Often natural ways to keep cholesterol levels difficult to do some people. This difficulty is usually because they can not change their lifestyle and eating patterns. They prefer to consume drugs like Zocor, Lipitor, Lescol, and the like.
Basically what should be done in changing diet and lifestyle are as follows:
- Eat less red meat and poultry meat, especially fat that is usually located at the bottom of the skin of poultry.
- Reduce the use of milk and dairy products.
- Some types of vitamins and supplements (you can find references on the internet) is also good for reducing cholesterol.
- However, physical activity should be increased. We need to burn calories. To walk a distance of 3.5 KM. Perhaps we also need a pedometer for walking.
- Eat more fruits, vegetables and wheat bread. Eat more fish, like salmon and tuna. Omega-3 dihasikan will raise HDL levels. Now, Omega-3 is present in a practical package.
- Also today, there is a kind of cereal that reportedly can bind cholesterol in the intestine.
And of course, you should take certain medicines. Say Zocor (simvastatin) can be consumed up to 20mg a day. Some doctors believe that the consumption of simvastatin is necessary to reduce the levels of total cholesterol 100mg/dL.
Cholesterol levels may fall with only lifestyle changes, especially changes in the food / diet becomes more healthy and natural. Once you are at this point, control numbers can be quite easy, actually. So not only just the drug alone.
This site is a lot of talk about cholesterol control management.
There are opinions in the medical community, the higher the level of HDL (good cholesterol) and lower levels of LDL (bad cholesterol), the better his / her health condition. Normal limits usually used are: LDL level should be less than 100 mg / dL, whereas HDL levels are generally preferred for more than 50 mg / dL. Total cholesterol level less than 200 mg / dL.
In addition, the ratio of LDL to HDL (the number of your LDL divided by the number of HDL) should be maintained at 4.4 or less.
Often natural ways to keep cholesterol levels difficult to do some people. This difficulty is usually because they can not change their lifestyle and eating patterns. They prefer to consume drugs like Zocor, Lipitor, Lescol, and the like.
Basically what should be done in changing diet and lifestyle are as follows:
- Eat less red meat and poultry meat, especially fat that is usually located at the bottom of the skin of poultry.
- Reduce the use of milk and dairy products.
- Some types of vitamins and supplements (you can find references on the internet) is also good for reducing cholesterol.
- However, physical activity should be increased. We need to burn calories. To walk a distance of 3.5 KM. Perhaps we also need a pedometer for walking.
- Eat more fruits, vegetables and wheat bread. Eat more fish, like salmon and tuna. Omega-3 will raise HDL levels. Now, Omega-3 is present in a practical package.
- Also today, there is a kind of cereal that reportedly can bind cholesterol in the intestine.
And of course, you should take certain medicines. Say Zocor (simvastatin) can be consumed up to 20mg a day. Some doctors believe that the consumption of simvastatin is necessary to reduce the levels of total cholesterol 100mg/dL.
Cholesterol levels may fall with only lifestyle changes, especially changes in the food / diet becomes more healthy and natural. Once you are at this point, control numbers can be quite easy, actually. So not only just the drug alone.
This site is a lot of talk about cholesterol control management.
Dr. Agus Ciptosantoso
doctor who lived in the countryside but try actively in the world of the Internet as part of the globalization of the profession
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I have a question…
is it possible for us to have high “cholesterol total” even we are skinny ?
thanks before…