| Nowadays many people suffer from cholesterol, | | | | heart and dilivered to all the body through arteries. |
| because they tend not to pay as much attention | | | | The role of the blood, amongst other thing, is to |
| to what they eat as they should. Fast food and | | | | carry oxygen and nutrients throughout your body. |
| take out has gained a lot of ground and eating | | | | When your level of cholesterol reached a certain |
| healthy food is more and more of an abstract | | | | point above normal, the unnecessary cholesterol is |
| idea. | | | | left behind, remaining in the arteries. Throughout |
| Everybody knows that fat is essential to our | | | | the years the cholesterol left behind forms a |
| body because it is a very big source of energy. | | | | waxy substance which hardens or even blocks |
| However, you can get your energy from other | | | | the flow of the blood. Organs than are very likely |
| substances besides fat, which in higher quantities | | | | to become damaged. |
| is very bad for your organism. It especially | | | | Another thing to know is that cholesterol is made |
| affects the circulation of the blood, because it | | | | by two sources. The first one is the liver, which |
| raises the levels of cholesterol in your blood, which | | | | produces all the necessary quantity of cholesterol |
| can lead to heart attacks. | | | | that your body will ever need. The second source |
| The type of diets suggested in this article have as | | | | of cholesterol is by eating animal products, such |
| purpose reducing the amount of fat and | | | | as meat, milk, eggs and many more. So, in order |
| cholesterol in your body up to the required level. | | | | to keep the cholesterol level within normal limits, |
| Both these diets have as goal decreasing the | | | | one should reduce the dietary cholesterol. |
| dietary fat and cholesterol, limit the intake of | | | | Another way of reducing your blood cholesterol |
| sodium, increase the quantity of fiber in your diet | | | | levels is by eating as less saturated fats as |
| and lower the amount of calories, in order to | | | | possible. The saturated fats are those who stay |
| reach a normal weight. The amount of calories | | | | solid at the room temperature. There also are |
| that one should get every day is about 1100 for | | | | some vegetables whose fats act like the |
| women and around 1400 for men. | | | | saturated fats that I have told you before, |
| Now, for better understanding what has to be | | | | therefor they should be avoided. Those vegetable |
| done, we must first find out what cholesterol is. | | | | fats are cocoa butter, palm oil and coconut oil. |
| First thing to know is that blood is pumped by the | | | | |