Lower Your Cholesterol

According to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, lowering your cholesterol level decreases your chances of having a heart attack. Lowering cholesterol may also slow down, reduce, or even stop cholesterol from building up in the arteries in your heart as well as those in other parts of your body.

The main goal of cholesterol-lowering treatment is to lower your low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol level enough to reduce your risk of having a heart attack.

If you have high cholesterol, you have a lot of options.  Surely you know about medications- there is a tremendous amount of advertising money spent annually encouraging you to take them.

What you might not know is that, if you are like many people, a few simple, tasty changes to your diet can significantly lower your cholesterol.  I have helped hundreds of people lower their cholesterol.  None of them gave up all their favorite foods.  I can help you bring in more of the “good stuff”- foods you probably already enjoy but may have been eating less of in recent years.  And I’ll help you find acceptable replacements for the foods that tend to increase cholesterol- or help you figure out how to eat a little less of them.

If your doctor suggests you start a cholesterol lowering drug as a first step, I encourage you to ask him or her if you could try changing your diet first.  If you start a drug and change your diet at the same time, you and your doctor will never know how responsive your cholesterol level is to diet.  Many of my clients have told me they were surprised how easy it was to lower their cholesterol.