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Natural Cholesterol Lowered

Nine natural ways to lower cholesterol

October 03, 2008
Though medications are often the best way to control high cholesterol, experts say that there are some natural alternatives that can help lower cholesterol as well. WebMD experts offer this list of nine supplements and foods that have been found to affect cholesterol levels. The list, they say, may be a good starting point for discussing adding natural remedies to a medically supervised cholesterol-lowering regimen. Read more »

Expert & Community Posts

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Natural Treatment Options for Lowering Cholesterol
By Glenn Gandelman, MD, MPH , Health Expert

...Control) and Sitostanol (Benechol) can reduce LDL (bad) cholesterol levels by up to 10%.  Soy... Read more »

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Alternative Treatment for Lowering Cholesterol
By Melanie Thomassian , Health Expert

...plant sterols. They are believed to decrease blood cholesterol levels by competing with dietary... Read more »

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Do Natural Methods of Lowering Cholesterol Really Work?
By Melanie Thomassian , Health Expert

Are you worried about your cholesterol levels?   Perhaps you've already started exercising and... Read more »

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Keep Your Heart in Tick Tock Shape
By Heather Reese , Health Expert

...(AHA). Worse yet, 17 percent of Americans have a blood cholesterol level over 240, which puts... Read more »

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Keep Your Heart in Tick Tock Shape
By Heather Reese , Health Expert

...(AHA). Worse yet, 17 percent of Americans have a blood cholesterol level over 240, which puts... Read more »

Health Guide

Keep Your Heart in Tick Tock Shape
...statistics from the American Heart Association (AHA). Worse yet, 17 percent of Americans have a blood cholesterol level over 240, which puts them at high risk for heart attack and stroke. These... Read more »
The Skinny on Dietary Fats
...of fuel. Dietary Fat and Cholesterol Fat is the single largest dietary factor in your body’s cholesterol levels. I will explain how fat affects cholesterol levels in more detail below. But... Read more »
The Skinny on Dietary Fats
...of fuel. Dietary Fat and Cholesterol Fat is the single largest dietary factor in your body’s cholesterol levels. I will explain how fat affects cholesterol levels in more detail below. But... Read more »
Low Cholesterol Diet: How to Cut Out the Fat
...limiting dietary cholesterol, some researchers assert that dietary fat is a larger factor in your body’s cholesterol levels because it can increase your total cholesterol and LDL levels. There... Read more »
What is Cholesterol?: A Patient Guide
...people (more than 50 percent by recent estimates) are either inadequately treated or unaware that their cholesterol level is too high. Considering that more than million estimated American adults... Read more »

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Cholesterol in the Body- How is Cholesterol Produced?

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Medications

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