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Clearing the Myths about High Blood Cholesterol

22 May 2007

High blood cholesterol, that causes heart ailment, could be due to several factors including family history, age, eating habits, gender, body weight and shape and your lifestyle too are responsible for raising cholesterol level. People with high cholesterol can try cholesterol lowering drug to lower the cholesterol level.

Insufficient information about high blood cholesterol has led to many myths that people have started believing in. This practice is just harming these people. Popular myths are:

Should I skip seafood as I have high blood cholesterol?
Though, seafood and meat does contain cholesterol but it has little impact on blood cholesterol in majority of people. So there is no need to skip seafood. Saturated fats and trans-fattty acids are the most important factors that increase blood cholesterol and not dietary cholesterol.

Is cholesterol present in my body is harmful?
There are two types of blood cholesterol: LDL (the bad cholesterol) and HDL (the good cholesterol) with different functions. Large amount of LDL will deposit cholesterol on the artery walls that will form plaques. If these more plaques are formed then it will block blood flow. So, LDL is termed as bad cholesterol.

On the other hand, HDL, which is considered good, removes extra cholesterol and takes it to the liver that is then excreted. It can also remove some of the cholesterol already present on the artery walls. That's why, HDL is considered the good cholesterol as high levels of HDL in the blood can reduce chances the risk of heart disease.

Even regular workouts can also raise HDL level that will eventually reduce the chance of heart ailment.

A person with high cholesterol level can always rely on Lipitor and Zocor for lowering the level of blood cholesterol.

Lipitor is a prescription pill that can be bought only with doctor's recommendation.