How to Deal With High Cholesterol
By Jay R. Coleman
You can find out using a home testing kit, what the levels of cholesterol in your body are and in case you find that you have high cholesterol, or close to it being high, it is time for you to visit your dr. who will then perform a more appropriate blood test to help pinpoint the accurate level of cholesterol in your body including both good (HDL) or bad (LDL) cholesterol.
First thing your doctor will advise you about when it is discovered that you’ve high cholesterol is to ask you to make changes to your lifestyle, although of course, each case will have its own merits and when there is exceptionally high cholesterol levels in your body, you may even require taking drugs for bringing down the levels to more manageable levels.
However, it’s normal for you to first be a borderline case and a simple change in your lifestyle should be enough as well as efficient enough to bring down the levels of your cholesterol problem.
Your lifestyle changes would warrant that you change what you eat and also take to living a more active life, and you may require to switch to eating lean meats that do not have much fat or skin and even switch to chicken and fish in order to bring down your cholesterol level rather than eat red meat or meats that are fatty such as lamb or pork.
September 19 2008 08:57 am | Becky Harber and Dr. Frank Harber and Frank Harber