How to Lower Cholesterol

Knowing how to lower cholestrol is very important because of the high risk that high cholesterol puts on your heart. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the world and most deaths can be prevented by taking a few simple measures.

The easiest thing you can do to lower your cholesterol is to eat fish twice a week. The reason that everyone is in love with fish oil pills is because fish has been proven to lower cholesterol if eaten as little as 2 times a week. Most people don't eat fish that often so they do the next best thing, which is take pills containing almost the same stuff they would get from fish. If you have to choose between the two option, EAT the fish! This way you will be eating something that is good for you and high in protein, which means you won't be filling yourself up with as much fat.

The next issue with cholesterol is saturated fat. The more saturated fat you eat, the worse your cholesterol will be.

Not all cholesterol is bad. You have the bad cholesterol, LDL and the good cholesterol, HDL.

If you take total cholesterol divided by HDL you will have a number that tells you your risk factor for heart disease.