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The Reason Why You Need HDL In Your Body
February 14th, 2011
It is ironic fact that unhealthy food sometimes taste better than healthy food, this is because they are contains with high cholesterol, fat and saturated oil. If you are a fan of fast food, or if you are busy worker who have to do everything fast, then you should cut your bad habits, because fast food highly contains with LDL cholesterol, the caused of life threatening disease like cancer and heart problems.
If you know how to cook the healthy food in the right way, it actually taste good, even better than the unhealthy one. You need to take food that contains with beneficial nutrients like green leaf vegetables, fruits, and animal proteins. HDL cholesterol is very beneficial to your body, they can maintain your heart health, and they can reduce the bad effect of LDL cholesterol. HDL cholesterol can prevent blocked artery walls; they boost the blood circulation to avoid inflammation. HDL cholesterol is your best friend to fight the LDL cholesterol. They work like bad cholesterol killer.
If you want to live your life healthy, then you should engage in healthy life style, you have to do exercise at least three times a week, and avoid unhealthy food. Make your first move, right now, because you never know what will happen in the future.
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Cardiovascular diseases in menopause
December 4th, 2009
To prevent the possible factors that may increase cardiovascular disease in postmenopausal women becomes a very important job because the lack of estrogen is lost cardioprotective factor.
1. Why increases cardiovascular risk?
The causes of increased cardiovascular risk in women after menopause are many and are related to the loss of the cardioprotective role of estrogens:
Cholesterol, first enemy
Cholesterol is a substance necessary for the proper functioning of our body. However, it must remain within normal limits, since when is high is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease.
Total cholesterol comprises mainly the LDL-cholesterol (acronym in English of the low density lipoprotein) and HDL-cholesterol (high density lipoprotein).
LDL-cholesterol is considered the “bad” cholesterol because it is he that is deposited inside the arteries, forming a cluster located (atherosclerotic plaques) which gradually begin to narrow the caliber or lumen.
However, HDL-cholesterol is considered the “good” cholesterol, the “garbage” because it is responsible for “cleaning” the walls of the arteries carrying the fat to the liver.
After menopause there is an increase in triglycerides, total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol and an undesirable decrease of HDL-cholesterol, thus leading to menopause have worse cholesterol therefore be harmful to the arteries.