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With a growing number of people looking to take care of their health through natural methods these days, then it stands to reason there is a growing demand for high cholesterol natural remedies. This is probably due in no small part to the fact that statin drugs that have been traditionally used to treat cholesterol levels have so many side effects which are bad for you, means that many people will ultimately want to use a safe alternative. Of course there are different forms of high cholesterol natural remedies, however here are three that can give you a head start in controlling your cholesterol levels.

Heart disease is the number 1 killer of women in the United States today. 1 out of 4 women will die each year in the U.S. from heart disease. It is estimated that one half of women who have heart disease or die from a heart attack do not know that they have a heart [...]

Heart disease is serious and affects children, as a percentage of born on 2500, is due to a severe cardiac malformation: The Noonan syndrome which leads, inexorably, to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, because very often death.
The solution to this serious problem, which seriously attentive to the health of children, appears on the horizon and is represented by [...]

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) claims the life of one American every 37 seconds according to the American Heart Association’s 2009 Heart and Stroke Statistical Update. CVD includes an assortment of diseases that are often used (or misused) in reference to the general term “heart disease”. Among those are Atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries caused by Arteriosclerosis, [...]

Heart disease, or cardiovascular disease, is a well known term. Most people are aware of the risks associated with heart disease, as well as stroke. But, very few are familiar with peripheral artery disease (PAD). When atherosclerosis affects the arteries in the lower extremities, it is termed peripheral artery disease. Atherosclerosis is known to most [...]

Statins are drugs designed to bring down cholesterol. Recently, it was found that one cholesterol lowering drug may actually contribute to plaque formation. Merck and Schering said that not only did Zetia fail to slow the accumulation of fatty plaque in the arteries, it actually seemed to contribute to plaque formation. Research on pravastatin appearing [...]

Heart disease and stroke are the number one and number three killers of Americans. Forty-five percent of all deaths in the United States are due to these “silent killers.” Heart disease and stroke also lead to pre-mature death. The main culprit is atherosclerosis, which is a hardening of the artery walls.?It has been proven that [...]

When a physician assesses your risk for heart disease, weight is most certainly a consideration, and often a waist measurement will be taken. But a recent study points to fat necks being a risk factor for heart disease also.
If you have too much fat, especially in the waist area (known technically as visceral adipose tissue), [...]

Cholesterol is essential for the normal functioning of our body but when its levels rise in the circulation it can lead to atherosclerosis. It was the originated from the Greek word chole meaning bile and steros which means solid. In medical language high levels of cholesterol in the blood is known as Hypercholesterolemia where you [...]

So what are triglycerides and does it matter if you have high triglyceride levels?
Beyond keeping track of your blood pressure and cholesterol, there’s another number to you need to know – triglycerides.
These fatty particles in your blood are very important to your heart health, but they don’t get all the attention cholesterol does.
Yet about one [...]