Ithaca, NY (1888PressRelease)
May 06, 2008 - Cholesterol is a soft, waxy substance found in all of your body's cells. Your body needs cholesterol in order to work properly. This is because your body uses cholesterol to hold cells together. Your body also uses cholesterol to make hormones, vitamin D, and substances that help you digest foods.
However, if too much cholesterol gets into your blood it can cause problems. This is known as high cholesterol.
If you have high cholesterol, and nothing is done to lower it, you will be at greater risk for serious medical problems later, such as a heart attack or stroke. Therefore, lowering cholesterol is an important issue for anyone's general health.
The main goal of high cholesterol treatment is to lower your low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels enough to reduce your risk of developing heart disease or having a heart attack. The higher your risk, the lower your LDL goal will be.
Millions of Americans take statin drugs to help lower their cholesterol, making it one of the most popular classes of prescription drugs on the market today, but like most prescription medications, these drugs are often unnecessary.
The problem with these so-called "magic pills" is that they often end up doing more harm than good. Such is the case with Liptor, the most popular of the five statin drugs available today.
To effectively reduce cholesterol, the most important thing is to change your lifestyle (your habits of life and exercise) and reduce your intake of fatty foods and animal products (these types of food increase the level of LDL cholesterol in the body).
Lowering LDL cholesterol is currently the primary focus in preventing atherosclerosis and heart attacks. The benefits of lowering LDL cholesterol include:
Reducing or stopping the formation of new cholesterol plaques on the artery walls;
Reducing existing cholesterol plaques on the artery walls;
Widening narrowed arteries;
Decreasing the risk of heart attacks; and
Decreasing the risk of strokes.
Americans are being overdosed with prescription medications they really don't even need in the first place. We now know that these drugs can have serious side effects in many areas of health.
Everyday now more and more people are finding that they can quickly reverse their cholesterol.
