{"product_id":"2940013083585","title":"How to Lower Your Cholesterol","description":"More than half of the world today has high cholesterol. What this means is that every other\u003cbr\u003eperson that you see walking down the street is at risk for some sort of heart disease. The\u003cbr\u003eaverage person doesn’t even know how their cholesterol stands because you can’t see high\u003cbr\u003echolesterol. However, the stats stand for themselves when it comes to your cholesterol; you\u003cbr\u003eneed to understand it in order to be able to deal with it. Once you get past the code, it is very\u003cbr\u003eeasy to understand.\u003cbr\u003eThere are actually five different ways that you can use in order to get a complete reading on\u003cbr\u003eyour own cholesterol levels and they are: total cholesterol levels, HDL, LDL, total\/HDL ratio,\u003cbr\u003eLDL\/HDL ratio. These measurements are actually written down to be what is desirable and what\u003cbr\u003eis not desirable. Measurement units for checking your cholesterol are conducted as milligrams\u003cbr\u003eper deciliter. It is extremely confusing if you try to look at these separately. You can talk to your\u003cbr\u003edoctor if you really want to understand your cholesterol levels and what, if anything, you need to\u003cbr\u003edo about them or how to maintain them properly.\u003cbr\u003eI am going to give you the actual numbers that are involved when it comes to your cholesterol.\u003cbr\u003eYour overall desired level should be below 200 mg\/dL, 200 to 240 for a borderline level and total\u003cbr\u003erisk above level 240. This is just for your overall levels. When it comes to breaking it down to\u003cbr\u003eeach individual level, your doctor can best explain those to you.\u003cbr\u003eExplaining HDL Cholesterol\u003cbr\u003eWhen you think of your cholesterol, chances are all you care about is that it is low, but HDL\u003cbr\u003elevels are not the same as general cholesterol levels. It is actually just a section of your overall\u003cbr\u003echolesterol when it comes to your HDL levels you actually want it to be high. HDL is not the\u003cbr\u003esame as cholesterol in any way. In fact your HDL levels are high density lipoproteins. We need\u003cbr\u003elots of these. Their role in our body is to carry cholesterol away from the body as soon as LDL\u003cbr\u003ehas brought it.\u003cbr\u003eThere are several different ways that you will want to achieve this. On the list are the excessive\u003cbr\u003esmoking, alcohol, body weight, exercise and medications. Let's look at the actual numbers on\u003cbr\u003ethis. You have to remember that the smallest changes in HDL levels are significant. It would be\u003cbr\u003egoing too far to say it is exponential, but a 1 mg\/dL increase in your HDL cholesterol levels\u003cbr\u003emeans as much as a 2 to 4 percent reduction in risk of heart disease and cardiac problems in\u003cbr\u003egeneral.\u003cbr\u003eKnowing that your HDL levels need to be high is one thing. Here are the actual figures to\u003cbr\u003eexplain. Your numbers are too low if they are at 37 mg\/dL for men and at 47 mg\/dL for women.\u003cbr\u003eThe normal range for men to have is about 40 to 50 mg\/dL, and for women 50 to 60 mg\/dL. This\u003cbr\u003eis a concern as many people get these levels backward. It helps if you try to see a reasonable\u003cbr\u003egoal which would be to increase your HDL cholesterol levels by 10 mg\/dL from whatever it is\u003cbr\u003enow since most of us need more than what we have.","brand":"Caring \u0026 Sharing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079265730800,"sku":"2940013083585","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013083585_p0.jpg?v=1763576589","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013083585","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}