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Health Encyclopedia: Information On Keeping A Heart Healthy Diet Unsaturated Fats, Low Fat Diets
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Introduction
Heart-Healthy Goals. The goals of a heart-healthy diet are to eat foods that help obtain or maintain healthy levels of cholesterol and fatty molecules called lipids. You can achieve this by:
- Reducing overall cholesterol levels and low-density lipoproteins (LDL), which are harmful to the heart.
- Increasing high-density lipoproteins (HDL), which are beneficial for the heart.
- Reducing other harmful lipids (fatty molecules), such as triglycerides and lipoprotein(a).
Any diet should also help ...
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Expert & Community Posts
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Drop your cholesterol like a stone—naturally!
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Can Tomato Ketchup Prevent a Heart Attack?
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Small LDL Cholesterol: Epidemic of the New Century
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...Journal of Medicine suggests the importance of treating unhealthy cholesterol early in life. A healthy diet and weight control are the best first steps for cholesterol management.Statin... Read more »Cholesterol and Lipids
...consequences, depending on the type of cholesterol. Although the body acquires some cholesterol through diet, about two-thirds is manufactured in the liver, its production stimulated by saturated... Read more »Cholesterol Treatment and Drugs
...adolescents with high cholesterol levels should first change any lifestyle risk factors (obesity, high-fat diet, sedentary habits) that might responsible. Young people over 7 or 8 years old with... Read more »Images
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