19 Jan
Posted by Dr John Anne as Heart care
The major causes of heart disease are unhealthy diet, stress, and a sedentary lifestyle. When you eat too many fatty foods and don’t get enough exercise, the arteries in your heart begin to clog with fatty deposits. Over time, these deposits can lead to major restriction of heart arteries, which leads to heart attacks.
16 Jan
Posted by Dr John Anne as Heart care
One of the reasons that lowering cholesterol with diet is strongly recommended as the first step is because changing the type of foods that you eat is a much less riskier approach than depending on medications to do the job. Adding cholesterol lowering foods to your diet can have a long term beneficial effect and […]
12 Jan
Posted by Dr John Anne as Heart care
Excessive obesity is one of the plainest symptoms of high cholesterol, just because you are below the correct weight for your height this does not mean that your cholesterol level is proper.
Cholesterol is needed by our bodies to function properly, high levels of cholesterol in the blood, a condition called hypercholesterolemia is a key risk factor for developing coronary heart diseases like atherosclerosis and heart attack.
19 Dec
Posted by Dr John Anne as Heart care
Cholesterol Lowering Diet
Below are some simple foods that can be included in diet as they are cholesterol lowering.
1. Apples: Pectin present in the apple is a soluble fiber that helps draw cholesterol out of the system. The flavonoids (Quercetin) present in apples act as a strong anti-oxidant which disrupts the formation of […]