LDL Cholesterol Articles

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Almonds Help Weight Management

Almonds, an excellent dietary source of vitamin E, magnesium, fatty acids, and fiber are not only a great part of a healthy weight management program they help lower LDL cholesterol. A study published in the British Journal of Nutrition found that when woman who ate 344 calories worth of almonds per day felt more satisfied and did not gain weight. There is nothing worse for a person than eating a really light lunch thinking they are on a great diet only to have a power outage and food cravings set in by mid afternoon. Eating enough quality fat at lunch helps prevent this problem.

Read More: almonds, fat restriction, fatty acids, Fiber, LDL cholesterol, low fat diet, Vitamin E

Oat Fiber for Healthy Cholesterol Levels

University of Kentucky researchers have reviewed the oatmeal science over the past 10 years and found the evidence of benefits to be stronger than when the FDA first approved claims for this food a decade ago. The research clearly shows that total “cholesterol levels are lowered through oat consumption...

Read More: benefits, Daily Protein Plus™, Daily Protein™, Fiber Helper™, HDL cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, oat fiber, oatmeal, research

Vytorin Fraud Places all Statin Therapy in Question

Excessively lowering cholesterol has been the mantra of Big Pharma gone wild. Congressional investigation into a fraudulent cover-up of Vytorin study results led Merck and Schering-Plough to reveal what everyone had been suspecting, the main ingredient in their 5-billion-a-year scam failed miserably to do anything useful.

Read More: diet, Exercise, heart disease, LDL cholesterol, statins, Vytorin

Low LDL Cholesterol Associated with Parkinson’s Risk

It is a rather sad commentary on American Heart Association’s and Big Pharma’s aggressive marketing of statin drugs that their abnormally low proposed levels of LDL cholesterol for heart health (<90) are the very same levels associated with a new study’s findings for a significantly increased risk for Parkinson’s disease.

Read More: LDL cholesterol, Parkinson's, statins

Circulating Fat Blobs Predict Cardiovascular Disease

One year ago JAMA published a major breakthrough article explaining that nonfasting levels of triglycerides (fat blobs) was an independent and highly predictive indicator of true cardiovascular disease risk. In the past year these finding have been widely agreed upon...

Read More: alipoprotein B, cardiovascular disease, HDL cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, Leptin Diet, leptin resistance, nonfasting triglycerides, Triglycerides

Thyroid and Cholesterol

It is well established in the scientific literature that subclinical hypothyroid as well as frank hypothyroid are associated with increased levels of total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and lipoprotein(a).

Read More: hypothyroid, LDL cholesterol, lipoproteina, subclinical hypothyroid, total cholesterol

Vytorin Cancer Link Opens Can of Worms

In an unprecedented change of posture the New England Journal of Medicine has reversed itself on the issue of whether Vytorin causes cancer. In the initial release of data back in July NEJM stood by Merck and Schering-Plough, who hired an Oxford consultant to rule that a 50% statistically significant increased risk of cancer was by chance. I pointed out in an earlier posting that such statistical manipulation, based primarily on the opinion of the Oxford reviewer, was ridiculous. NEJM has had a sudden change of heart and now agrees with me.

Read More: cancer, LDL cholesterol, Vytorin

Please Pass the Pistachios

In a study that rocks the wobbly foundation of the low fat diet for heart health paradigm (which is of course a major fraud), LDL cholesterol was lowered by 8% when participants ate 20% of their calories per day from pistachios (34% fat diet).

Read More: LDL cholesterol, pistachios

Cranberry Lowers LDL Cholesterol

A new study has shown that cranberry supplements can significantly lower LDL and total cholesterol over a 12 week period.

Read More: Cranberry, LDL cholesterol, Mangosteen Plus™

High Intake of EPA/DHA Reduces Risks for Cardiovascular Disease

By now just about everyone is aware that consuming essential fatty acids like DHA is vital to your cardiovascular health, weight management, and general inflammation reduction. In general, the more health problems you have relating to cardiovascular health, blood sugar, weight, and inflammation, the higher the level of intake should be. A new study with Eskimos suggests that more is better as the study authors concluded, "Increasing EPA and DHA intakes to amounts well above those consumed by the general US population may have strong beneficial effects on chronic disease risk."

Read More: cardiovascular disease, CRP, DHA, EPA, HDL cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, Triglycerides

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