I am 38, male, never really bothered to check my cholesterol. About 4 months ago, I had an annual physical checkup as part of my organization's requirements and my cholesterol was high. I was shocked.
I am not a smoker and I exercise religiously and I am generally healthy. My blood pressure was perfect just as everything else. The doctor prescribed some medications and I said "no way". I wanted to give it another two months and see how I could improve on it without medications. So I stopped eating things like potato chips and added oat bran to my diet. I jogged three times more than before.
Six weeks later, I went in for another test, surprisingly, all figures shot up. I was dumbfounded. How possible?? Okay, so I decided to try a five more week of a healthy lifestyle before giving in to medication. I bought eight books on cholesterol and followed their dietary requirements religiously. My thrill was eating the dark chocolate and red wine they all recommended. After five weeks my cholesterol dropped.
Apparently, stress had a lot to do with the cholesterol my doctor had told me, so I made a conscious effort to chill out most times. But keep in mind that chocolate will add saturated fat to your diet so you will need to reduce other intakes of these fats so as not to add on what you already eating. So that's my story, may or may not work for you, but it did for me. Good luck!
I am not a smoker and I exercise religiously and I am generally healthy. My blood pressure was perfect just as everything else. The doctor prescribed some medications and I said "no way". I wanted to give it another two months and see how I could improve on it without medications. So I stopped eating things like potato chips and added oat bran to my diet. I jogged three times more than before.
Six weeks later, I went in for another test, surprisingly, all figures shot up. I was dumbfounded. How possible?? Okay, so I decided to try a five more week of a healthy lifestyle before giving in to medication. I bought eight books on cholesterol and followed their dietary requirements religiously. My thrill was eating the dark chocolate and red wine they all recommended. After five weeks my cholesterol dropped.
Apparently, stress had a lot to do with the cholesterol my doctor had told me, so I made a conscious effort to chill out most times. But keep in mind that chocolate will add saturated fat to your diet so you will need to reduce other intakes of these fats so as not to add on what you already eating. So that's my story, may or may not work for you, but it did for me. Good luck!
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