Four Factors That Affect The Cholesterol Level!

All of you may have heard of cholesterol and the bad effects towards us. Cholesterol is being known as a significant contributor to heart attacks, strokes, and other cardiovascular diseases. These diseases can leave you disabled, paralyzed, or even cause death. However, cholesterol  play an important role in our life process. It helps to maintain the structure of cell walls and to keep our brain healthy. Cholesterol is also as raw material in liver to create important hormones such as adrenalin and bile acids. It can keep you going and life well but can also stop you dead in your tracks.  Therefore, it's essential for us to understand and manage the cholesterol level to avoid premature death and disability. Hereby, I would like to share with you all about the factors  that affecting the cholesterol levels. 

1. Bad Eating Habits

The challenge of living in modern life is that we're so easy to overeat foods which are served in too big portion with too small of nutritional information. The foods that are easy to obtain are most probably fast, high-fat, high-sugar, calorie-rich, highly refined processed foods. Those foods are often poor in nutrient, cheap yet effortless to find. What you eat has a powerful affect over our health. You will still have plenty of cholesterol in your body even if you're a vegetarian and don't eat foods that contain cholesterol. It's essential for us to consume a primarily plant-based diet that consists of large proportion of whole grains, vegetables and fruits to support optimal health. 

2. Toxins

Exposure to environmental toxins such as cigarette smoke, air pollution, and other hazards chemicals in the air, water and foods is  also another aspect of modern living that make us difficult to support health. It's impossible for us to escape or avoid completely from those toxins but we can do our part to minimize dangerous exposures either by stop smoking, by filtering and boiling water before drink, or by eating whole foods. 

3. Lack of Exercises

Development of technology has made human life become so easy that so many labor-saving devices had been created and the requirement to move is almost obsolete. Nowadays, you can drive to work, sit in a chair to perform your job, shop and play games on your computer, use elevators and escalators to transport your body and so on. All of this are not good for health. To create optimum health, you need to be physically active.

4. Stress

It's a matter of how effective you manage your stress in life. The increment of living cost, the pressure of competition for material wealth, and the challenge of balancing between family and career are all contribute to increase daily pressures.  The life is too busy for people to find time to relax and unwind. Research studies show that mental stress can raise your cholesterol level and bring harm to your body. 

To start to understand and manage your cholesterol, you need to get it checked at the young age. Lifestyle changes are more effective at improving your cholesterol levels than medications. Of course, the most effective treatment is prevention. Therefore, save your life by changing your lifestyle.

Regards, 

Beverly.