4 Ways To Reduce Your Cholesterol Level Naturally

Cholesterol is a major cause of high blood pressure and other heart diseases.

One of the most important jobs of cholesterol is to aide the production of hormones. Cholesterol is stored in the adrenal glands, ovaries, and the testes and converted to steroid hormones. These steroid hormones perform other vital duties to help the body function properly.

It is also responsible for regulating the immunity and defense mechanism systems in our body and for transportation of lipid and other vital fats across the body.

However, an excess of it in the body poses a lot of dangers, mostly heart-related dangers.

These four natural tips will, however, help you reduce it.

1. Eat healthy

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Making some healthy choices to your choice of food and eating habits can go a long way to adjusting and bringing your cholesterol level under check.

Eating foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids like fish, sardine, white meat like chicken, high soluble fibre and protein-rich foods like oatmeal, beans, and vegetables will definitely help reduce your it in no time.

2. Lose the excess weight

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Losing excess weight is beneficial for all sorts of reasons, from improving your cholesterol profile to preventing diseases epidemic like type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes, and even cancer.

Eating the right kind of food will definitely help you lose weight as long as you are consistent with it.

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3. Avoid refined sugars and grains

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In place of refined flour and white rice, try substituting with whole-wheat flour and brown or wild rice.

These refined sugar and grains will make you gain some extra fat in no time because the body stores excess of it as fat or reserved energy, with the hope to convert it into energy when the body needs and there is no source of energy available.

However, in most cases, because we enjoy the taste of these foods, limiting it becomes a problem which leads to extra fat thereby leading to extra weight gain which defeats the aim of trying to reduce cholesterol in the body.

4. Increase your physical activities

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Moderate physical activity can help raise high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, the “good” cholesterol while reducing the LDL, the “bad” cholesterol.

Doing as little as 10 minutes daily brisk walking, bike riding, swimming or playing your favourite sport can go a long way in reducing your cholesterol level.

However, achieving this is only made possible by consistently doing these things.

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