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Coronary Heart
Disease - Cholestrol
Cholesterol is a very very important
factor in our body. Most of our body chemicals and their reactions
are dependant upon the cholesterol. It is the food for our brain,
muscles and needed in the healing of our wounds. Any stressful situation
raises the levels of this factor because it is needed to combat the
stress. The lower levels will lead to not only dysfunction of our
brain and muscles and poor healing of wounds but also it will lead
to more chances of our having cancer and infections.
Also the so called normal levels of cholesterol are based on study
of a large number of normal healthy individuals and whatever was the
commonly occurring range in that group, was accepted as the normal
range. Therefore if the normal upper limit is 250 and if your level
is 290 that does not mean you need treatment. It could be normal for
you. We have to assess the individual make up and decide about the
need of treatment.
Also high level does not mean you should take medicines for lowering
it. Initially you should look for the cause of the high cholesterol
and try to take care of it. If that does not lower the levels then
we have to employ some simple measures to reduce the levels. [Please
also see “the choice
of oil and diet”]
Also the level of the total cholesterol
only is not significant. You can have a level of 400 and yet will
not have any coronary heart disease if your HDL [So called “Good”
cholesterol] levels also are high enough.
The medicines should be avoided as far as possible as they have a
lot of side effects on all of our systems, more on the liver brain
and muscles.
"the choice of
oil and diet"
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