High Cholesterol

By: Ninah Thao

What is "high cholesterol"?

• Cholesterol is a waxy substance that's found in fat(lipids) in your blood.

• You body needs cholesterol to build healthy cells. But if you have high cholesterol, it can increase your risk of getting heart disease.

• You can develop fatty deposits in your blood vessels if you have high cholesterol.

• It will make it difficult for your oxygen-rich blood to flow through your heart and break. And if oxygen rich blood doesn't get to them, you can have a heart attack or a stroke.

How do you get it?

• High cholesterol can be inherited.

• Eating too much saturated fat, ex. breakfast foods, beef, pork, milk, butter, and cheese.

• Crackers, chips, margarine, palm oil, cocoa butter may also have a lot of saturated fat.

• Being overweight can cause high cholesterol.

• Being inactive can cause high cholesterol.

• Smoking can also be a cause too.

• If your cholesterol is higher than 200mg/dL, you have high cholesterol.

How does it affect your diet?

• If you have high cholesterol, you have to limit what type of foods you eat.

• Avoid fatty meals, full fat dairy products, snacks, cake, and processed meats.

Is there a cure?

• Eat healthy and exercise daily!

• Eat more fish instead of other meats, fish should be baked or poached not fried.

• Use olive oil or walnut oil, they're healthier oils.

• Grains like oats and oatmeal are also good at lowering your cholesterol.

• Eating apples, artichokes, garlic, and onions help lower your cholesterol.

• Eating more green vegetables also lower your cholesterol; ex. broccoli, spinach, lettuce, and green beans (low carb. too).

• Drinking fruit juice every morning before breakfast will drastically improve your cholesterol level over time.

What do you have to do with your diet to live with high cholesterol.

• Watch what you eat.

• It's very important to exercise.

• You should jog, walk, run, swim, bike, or do aerobics daily.

• To lose weight and lower your cholesterol, do cardiovascular exercises.

• Don't over work yourself when it comes to exercising though. You want to start off slowly... you then, can gradually increase the intensity level of your workout.

• If you know you have high cholesterol, you can search up healthy low cholesterol meals online.

• You can look up questions about having cholesterol or how to lower your cholesterol.

Technology & High Cholesterol

Meal examples that don't raise your cholesterol.

• For breakfast, you can make homemade Banana Bran Muffins or Egg White Omelet with Tomatoes.

• For a snack, you can make Banana, Strawberry, and Honey Smoothie.

• For lunch, you can make Zucchini Noodles.

• For dinner you can make an Arugula and Goat Cheese Pizza.

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