15 Ways to Lower Your Cholesterol Naturally


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Currently, there are two methods to lower your cholesterol, diet and/or medication. Medications work well in lowering your cholesterol number, but you might be concerned about long term side effects of taking the medication.
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Cholesterol levels can be lowered by reducing or eliminating your intake of foods that contain it, but also by consuming a variety of fruits, vegetables, whole grains and proteins that naturally help the body to lower bad cholesterol and raise the good.

Normal cholesterol levels are essential to a healthy and safe body. Here are 20 quick tips to reach those normal levels of cholesterol.

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High cholesterol is a condition many adults face as they head into their middle years. To combat this problem, many are turning to foods for lowering LDL cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein or "bad cholesterol." 

Having high cholesterol has been recognized as a risk factor for heart disease for many years. When the link between high cholesterol and cardiac disease was first noted it was assumed that by lowering our dietary intake of cholesterol rich foods then we would lower our total cholesterol.

In order to understand the differences between LDL cholesterol and HDL cholesterol, it is important to understand what cholesterol is.

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