17 and High Cholesterol?!


Question: 17 and High Cholesterol?
I'm 17 and my mom recently had a heart attack (she's 54) and she like myself, works out 5 times a week doing 60 min. of cardio and weights. We both eat healthy, generally a diet high in fiber and substitue as many "bad foods" (like butter, milk etc.) with "good foods" (like yogurt butter, skim milk etc.) and we eat lots of organic fruits and veggies. Both my mom and dad's side of the family have a history of heart problems (dad's side high blood pressure and heart disease) and my mom's side (high cholesterol and heart disease). My cholesterol is 174 and I'm just looking for ways to lower it. Thanks to all who contribute!

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Have you tried omega 3 capsules? My heart doc says they are good. Sadly, some people can exercise and eat perfectly but their cholesterol still remains high...



Since your total cholesterol is 174, it's still in the optimal zone. What's more important is how your LDL and HDL look. You want your HDLs to be as high as possible (at least in the 40s if you're male or 50s if female, but the higher the better, regardless).

The problem is, some people's livers just make a lot of cholesterol, unless they stick to an ultra-low fat diet like Dean Ornish's. If you have bad genetics (like I do), you may eventually have to consider a low dose statin. The first step, though, is checking out your cholesterol components rather than just looking at the total.



cheerios!!!!!!!!



i heard somewhere almonds?????



When you do all the right things and still develop such health problems, it's time to look in a different direction. The medical community focuses on the solid matter as the controlling agent for proper health and ignores the liquids - even going so far as to downplay the role of water.

But it's the water that delivers important nutrients to the cells and it's the water that carries the toxins away from the cells. Without an adequate water and salt intake, the cells malfunction and disease is the result.

The "drink plenty of fluids" campaign that doctors are pushing is dangerously flawed. This mandate gives the assumption that "fluids" and water are equal and interchangeable, and because more people prefer the taste of soft drinks over water, it's okay to substitute.

But these other drinks contain sugars, caffeine and other additives that rob them of their nutrition aspect, turning them into diuretics that take out as much as 50% more water than they contain. In addition to this, you have an approximate 2 1/2 quart water loss through respiration and kidney function. This is water that is going out, but not being replaced.

Contrary to the popular way of thinking, our bodies produce all of the cholesterol that we need - we don't use cholesterol from outside sources. There is no such thing as "bad cholesterol". This is a term that the drug companies have capitalized on to sell their chemicals.

When you become dehydrated, the blood thickens and becomes acidic with toxins. Passing through the lungs, it becomes even more dehydrated as more water leaves during the breathing process. As it passes through the arteries with a shearing force, the acidic blood causes tiny tears and abrasions to the artery walls.

To prevent this damage from peeling and causing an embolism in the brain or other major organ, the body produces the so-called "bad" cholesterol to cover and protect the damaged areas until repairs can be made. So, as you can see, this cholesterol is produced to save your life.

The problem comes in when doctors refuse to recognize dehydration at the level where such health problems originate. Why should they? There's no profit in prescribing water.

When dehydration is allowed to continue, so does the damage from acidic blood - signaling the body to produce more and more cholesterol.

You can lower your cholesterol by correcting your chronic dehydration. Click below to learn how to do it correctly. There's no charge for anything.

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