High cholesterol has everyone worries these days. If you have a family history of heart disease then it’s in your interest to keep your cholesterol levels down. If you find that you already have worrisome cholesterol levels then the answer might lie in what you eat. Changing your diet, even in small ways, is the [...]

Cholesterol can be either good or bad and the amount of each type of cholesterol that you have in your body can make a real difference when it comes to developing heart disease and atherosclerosis. Of the different types of cholesterol, the types of LDL cholesterol are the biggest enemy of the human body as [...]

Leading researchers all over the world agree that vitamin C has many benefits on the body. Recent studies on vitamin C and cholesterol show that high doses of vitamin C can actually eradicate cholesterol build up from the artery walls. This is not actually the first time that vitamin C and cholesterol are linked together [...]

There are a lot of misconceptions about cholesterol out there. The one thing that does seem to survive all the misinformation however is that cholesterol is bad for you. Like anything bad for you, you should learn all about it to better protect yourself. So what is cholesterol? Cholesterol is a naturally occurring waxy substance [...]

Cholesterol gets so much bad press that it’s hard to believe that your body actually needs it. There are two kinds of cholesterol in your body, good cholesterol also known as HDL cholesterol, and bad cholesterol or LDL cholesterol. Cholesterol in your body is necessary to make hormones, vitamin D and bile salts. The bad [...]