Your liver makes cholesterol for your body. You also can get cholesterol from the foods you eat. Meat, fish, eggs, butter, cheese, and whole
or low-fat milk all have cholesterol in them.
DO YOU NEED CHOLESTEROL?
Yes,You need some cholesterol to help your brain, skin, and other organs grow and do their jobs in the body. But eating too much of it is a bad idea, especially for people whose bodies already make too much cholesterol.
It floats around in your blood and can get into the walls of the blood vessels and stay there. If you have too much cholesterol in your bloodstream, a lot can collect in the blood vessel walls, causing these "pipes" to become narrower. This can clog the blood vessels and keep blood from moving freely the way it's supposed to.
If the clogging gets worse over many years, it can cause damage to important body parts, like the heart (heart attack) and brain (stroke)
How to Lower Your Cholesterol Levels:
1.Eat right. This may sound simple, but is main reason in determining the cholesterol levels. Regardless if it’s bad nutrition or inherited disorder nutrition is crucial for regulating of cholesterol levels. Low fat or vegan nutrition is the first step to lowering of high cholesterol.
2.Exercise. Improve your cardiovascular health. With exercising you will indirectly act on your high cholesterol levels, strengthening the heart and the circulatory system.
3.Quit smoking. When you smoke, depositing of plaque is accelerated in the arteries because of high cholesterol. When plaque blocks the flow of blood to the heart, heart muscles work harder to gain the oxygen necessary. Blocked arteries can cause heart attack.
4.Relax. Chronic stress also affects cholesterol levels. If you are constantly under stress and stressful situations, even low cholesterol diet won’t help you if you don’t learn to get rid of it on your own.
5.Talk to your doctor. Except with prescribed drugs, your doctor can also help you form a nutrition regime and exercising plan.
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