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September - Cholesterol Awareness Month 09 Sep 2008 Health & Fitness September is Cholesterol Awareness Month. It’s time to get to your complete lipid panel to assess your risk for heart disease.

blood cholesterol If you are an adult over twenty years old it is important to have your cholesterol level checked about every five years to make sure you have what is considered to be a healthy lowering cholesterol level. (...)

As we keep busy professional lives, it is easy to throw caution to the winds and binge on the wrong kinds of food. With the plethora of choice available in the form of food courts at the work place, it is easy to be tempted.     Stress coupled with an improper diet can be disastrous for health.

Studies have shown that indeed, high levels of cholesterol lead to a heart disease. On a safe level, cholesterol is important for organs such as liver to function properly. It is a fat-like substance which also helps to maintain the cellular structures on the body and is highly capable of transmitting the nerve impulses.

What Are Acceptable Cholesterol Numbers? Understanding the meaning of acceptable cholesterol numbers is very important so that you can take appropriate steps to remedy the possible problems arising from high LDL cholesterol levels.

The latest buzz that has everyone bothered these days is high cholesterol levels. You only need to worry about getting a high cholesterol level if you have a family member who has had it, are slightly overweight, and eat mostly fast foods. If this is the case, you should consider going on a diet to lower cholesterol which is the key to reducing cholesterol.

Cholesterol is the latest boogeyman in our kids’ lives (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle) Ornella | Dental | Friday, August 1st, 2008 As if I needed another reminder that today's childhood is not how I remember mine, along comes the news that kids still learning how to multiply numbers should now be worried about their cholesterol level.

It is a well known fact that no heart patient can avoid surgery. But what if you can reverse the effects of arterial blockage by the time you don’t get your surgery done? Chelation treatments are one such way!

Oral Chelation Therapy has been very successful in the last few years. Today every doctor or physician recommends people to go for oral or normal chelation therapy. This makes the body to throw out all the toxins that are present in our body in the form of body wastes.

A heart attack (also called myocardial infarction) is when part of the heart muscle is damaged or dies because it isn’t receiving oxygen. Oxygen is carried to the heart by the arteries (blood vessels). Most heart attacks are caused by a blockage in these arteries.