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Extractions: HEART CANCER WOMEN CHILDREN ... LOOK IT UP Cholesterol is a fat-like substance found in your blood and in all your body's cells. The American Heart Association (AHA) says you need a certain amount of cholesterol for good health. But too much cholesterol in your blood can lead to clogged arteries and is a major risk factor for heart disease.(Read about " Coronary Heart Disease ") Your total blood cholesterol level can help determine your relative risk of developing heart disease. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) says that, in general, the following overall cholesterol levels are considered acceptable for the average adult with no other known heart disease risk factors: Normal - less than 200mg/100dL High - over 240 mg/dL But those numbers don't tell the whole story, because not all cholesterol is bad. AHA says that a high level of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol is believed to be beneficial. High-density lipoproteins (the so-called "good" cholesterol) remove cholesterol from the bloodstream. Under the latest guidelines from the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) an HDL of less than 40 mg/dL is considered low for most adults, and indicates a potentially higher risk of heart disease. According to NCEP, HDL levels of 60 mg/dL or more help to lower your risk for heart disease. Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol is the so-called "bad" cholesterol. This is the kind of cholesterol that can build up and block arteries. NCEP says that an LDL reading of less than 130 mg/dL is considered desirable.
Lower Your Cholesterol And Triglyceride Levels foods. These fats circulate in the blood along with cholesterol andother fats. They form the bulk of fatty tissue on your body. http://www.canoe.ca/HealthMayeMuskColumns/000208.html
Extractions: Inside CANOE.CA SLAM! Sports Jam! Showbiz AllPop CNEWS Webfin Money C-Health Lifewise AUTONET.CA Newsstand Travel Search eBay.ca Get away today 411 online Free E-Mail Shop.canoe.ca CareerConnection Classified Extra Match Contact Obituaries Today Restaurants Hotels Weather Horoscopes Lotteries Crossword Scoreboard News Ticker Biz Ticker Sports Ticker TV Listings Movie Listings CLIVE Concerts Mutual Funds Stocks Feedback Index My children are always saying, "Mom, there's nothing to eat in this house!" Needless to say, they didn't invite their buddies over for snacks very often. The real reason I don't stock my house with these foods is that frankly, I find them irresistible. If they were in my cupboards, I would binge on them every night. They're just much too tempting. I also wouldn't be setting a good example for healthy eating habits. For me and probably for you, it's just easier to make these foods difficult to reach, rather than keep them close at hand and exercise willpower all the time.
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Extractions: Eating Well Home Healthy Lifestyles Nutrition Eating Well Food Pyramid Blocks Re-examined By Melissa Tennen, healthAtoZ writer First of two parts. The nation's recipe for healthy eating may need additional ingredients, say researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health in this two-part article on healthy eating and dieting. The Harvard group serves up an alternative to the traditional Food Guide Pyramid and its companion Dietary Guidelines for Americans, developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). When people in the Harvard study followed new guidelines designed by the researchers, the risk for cardiovascular diseases was significantly lower than for people following the federal model. "We wanted to improve the guidelines, and make more specific guidelines," says Marjorie McCullough, D.Sc., R.D., lead researcher of the study and an epidemiology researcher at the American Cancer Society. Men whose diets followed the guidelines for Harvard's Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI) lowered their overall risk of major chronic disease such as heart attacks, stroke and cancer by 20 percent. Women decreased their overall risk by 11 percent. For cardiovascular disease, men whose diets most closely followed the AHEI guidelines lowered their risks by 39 percent and women by as much as 28 percent. The USDA pyramid includes six to 11 servings of bread, cereal, rice and pasta; two to four servings of fruit; three to five servings of vegetables; two to three servings of milk, yogurt and cheese; and two to three servings of meat, poultry, fish, dry beans, eggs and nuts. At the top of the pyramid are fats, oils and sweets, which should be used sparingly.
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Extractions: Home Candy History Candy Statistics Nutrition and Health ... Association Info Milk Chocolate in the diet, even when consumed on a daily bases over a long period of time, does not raise blood cholesterol levels in healthy young men, according to the Southwestern University Medical Center in Dallas. "This finding is exciting because it confirms past studies that stearic acid, the predominant saturated fat in milk chocolate, is a unique saturated fatty acid," said Dr. Penny Kris-Etherton of The Pennsylvania State University (PSU), principle researcher of three studies on the subject. "We knew that stearic acid is different from other saturated fats, because it has a neutral effect on blood cholesterol levels. Now we've taken this research a step further and applied it to a popular food product, chocolate." Cocoa butter, a large component of chocolate, is rich in stearic acid. Kris-Etherton's study on 15 young men at PSU is the first to examine the relationship between high levels of milk chocolate consumption and blood cholesterol levels. "All of the participants in the study ate diets very high in different forms of saturated fat," said Kris-Etherton. "Only those who consumed saturated fat in the form of milk chocolate did not see a significant increase in the blood cholesterol level."
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Extractions: Saturated Fats Also indexed as: Beef Tallow, Coconut Oil, Lard, Palm Kernel Oil, Palm Oil, Tropical Oils Saturated fats, such as butter, are typically solid at room temperature. Butter Ghee Ghee is the traditional Sanskrit word for clarified butter (e.g., butter that has the milk solids and water removed). Having no milk solids, ghee has a longer shelf life and can be heated to much higher temperatures than butter without burning. Coconut and palm oils Lard and beef tallow Lard and beef tallow are the fats derived from pigs and cows, respectively. These products are used in food manufacturing and, to a lesser extent, in home-food preparation. Butter is usually purchased in foil-like packaging that protects it from light, the absorption of odors, moisture loss, and discoloration. Butter may be stored in its original package in the refrigerator for 2 to 3 months. Butter can also be frozen, but it begins to lose some of its flavor after about 6 months. Ghee is traditionally kept, sometimes for months, without refrigeration. Nevertheless, homemade ghee is best stored in the refrigerator. Salted, unsalted, and whipped butter is available in all grocery stores. Most natural food stores and some grocery stores carry organic varieties. Ghee is available from Indian foods stores and some natural foods stores. Lard and beef tallow may be ordered through some restaurant suppliers and specialty distributors.
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Extractions: energy bars shakes/drinks ... online specials More dangerous than cholesterol By Hal Walter You've been told over and over that cholesterol will kill you. But trans fats and fractionated oils contained in many foods could be more deadly. First off, cholesterol itself is not a "bad" substance. It is vital for manufacturing stress-regulating hormones and maintaining proper sexual function. It's when cholesterol levels get out of balance that trouble occurs. Trans fats, however, are bad substances. These fats found in hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils are a much bigger threat to your health than cholesterol. Many experts consider the consumption of trans fats alone to be a risk factor for heart disease. Hydrogenated oils are produced by chemically altering liquid vegetable oils to make them solid at room temperature. Manufacturers use them to prolong shelf life and to thicken some liquid products such as artificial coffee creamers. Ironically, many of these products are advertised as "cholesterol-free." Trans fats simultaneously increase "bad" LDL, decrease "good" HDL and raise total cholesterol levels. This formula can dramatically increase risk of heart disease by raising the ratio of total to HDL cholesterol.
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Extractions: Cholesterol is a type of fat made by your liver and found in your blood stream and your body's cells. It is also found in foods of animal origin like eggs, meat and dairy products. Your body needs cholesterol to produce cell membranes, hormones and some tissues. However, too much of it can cause coronary artery disease (CAD), which often results in a heart attack or stroke. What is a healthy cholesterol level? According to the National Institute of Health, the desired blood cholesterol level is less than 200 milligrams. People with 200 milligrams or more are considered to have high cholesterol. Your doctor can determine your cholesterol level and monitor it (if needed) with a simple blood test. Everyone should have their cholesterol level checked by the time they are 20 years old and then every five years after that. If your cholesterol is high or if you have other conditions that put you at risk of developing heart disease, you may need your cholesterol checked more frequently. If a child has a close relative, like a grandparent, who has had heart disease before age 55, he or she should be checked as young as 2 years old. If you have high cholesterol along with other risk factors such as obesity, smoking, family history of heart disease, presence of diabetes, high blood pressure, or are a male, the likelihood of developing coronary artery disease increases. Post-menopausal women are also at risk because of the loss of the protective effect of estrogen.
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Extractions: Almanac Science Food Source: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration But ever since word got out that diets high in fat are related to heart disease, things have become more complicated. Fats are a group of chemical compounds that contain fatty acids. Energy is stored in the body mostly in the form of fat. Fat is needed in the diet to supply essential fatty acids , substances essential for growth but not produced by the body itself. There are three main types of fatty acids: saturated, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated. All fatty acids are molecules composed mostly of carbon and hydrogen atoms. A saturated fatty acid has the maximum possible number of hydrogen atoms attached to every carbon atom. It is therefore said to be with hydrogen atoms. because it has one gap. Fatty acids that are missing more than one pair of hydrogen atoms are called Saturated fatty acids are mostly found in foods of animal origin. Monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids are mostly found in foods of plant origin and some seafoods. Polyunsaturated fatty acids are of two kinds, omega-3 or omega-6 Recently a new term has been added to the fat lexicon: trans fatty acids . These are byproducts of partial hydrogenation , a process in which some of the missing hydrogen atoms are put back into polyunsaturated fats.
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Extractions: Once upon a time, we didn't know anything about fat except that it made foods tastier. We cooked our food in lard or shortening. We spread butter on our breakfast toast and plopped sour cream on our baked potatoes. Farmers bred their animals to produce milk with high butterfat content and meat "marbled" with fat because that was what most people wanted to eat. But ever since word got out that diets high in fat are related to heart disease, things have become more complicated. Experts tell us there are several different kinds of fat, some of them worse for us than others. In addition to saturated, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats, there are triglycerides, trans fatty acids, and omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids. Most people have learned something about cholesterol, and many of us have been to the doctor for a blood test to learn our cholesterol number. Now, however, it turns out that there's more than one kind of cholesterol, too.
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Extractions: LEARN TO READ FOOD LABELS Have you ever been misled by a food label? Do you know how to read food labels? Take our test by clicking here for a list of all natural substances that contain no fat, no cholesterol and no calories! Eating healthy starts with knowing what you are eating. You are what you eat! Unfortunately, just because a food product contains the word "healthy" prominently displayed on its label doesn't mean it really is good for you. To find out for sure, you must check the "Nutrition Facts" that are on all food products. These tell you: These are all listed as "Amount Per Serving." It is important to determine what they consider to be a serving. This is often listed as "servings per container." Something may appear to be "low-cal" but if they define a serving size as a third of a container and the whole container is eaten , three times that amount of calories will actually be consumed! Ditto for the fat and cholesterol content. Some foods shout from the front label that they are "low-fat" or "low-cholesterol." This is definitely NOT the same thing as having no fat or cholesterol. It simply means that they have somewhat less fat or cholesterol than the original product. It may be only a quarter less. If the original product contains a lot of fat, the low-fat product may still be quite fattening. Here is how the United States government defines the phrases on food labels:
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Extractions: Cholesterol Home Cholesterol Nutty Diet Lowers Cholesterol By Jill Max , healthAtoZ contributing writer Nuts used to be forbidden fruit for people following a heart healthy diet. But no more. Walnuts, almonds and other nuts have been shown to help lower cholesterol, and a recent study found that pecans, an American favorite, are a powerful nut in the pack. The study, published in the Journal of Nutrition, found that adding 2 ounces of pecans a day to the low-fat, heart-healthy diet recommended by the American Heart Association (AHA) lowered cholesterol levels more than the diet alone. The AHA's low-fat Step 1 diet recommends that healthy individuals limit their cholesterol intake to 300 mg and those with heart disease to less than 200 mg. (The average man consumes 337 mg of cholesterol/day, and the average woman consumes 217 mg cholesterol/day.) The pecan diet worked better than the AHA diet because it not only lowered total cholesterol and LDL (the so-called "bad" cholesterol) more, but it also lowered triglycerides and raised HDL levels (the "good" cholesterol). The AHA diet by itself tends to lower HDL and raise triglycerides, other fats in the blood. "The general public considers nuts to be a high-fat food, so they tend to avoid it," says Sujatha Rajaram, Ph.D., assistant professor in the department of nutrition at Loma Linda University and lead author of the study. "But we know that frequent consumption of nuts can lower heart disease."
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Extractions: THESE ARE SOME COMMON SYMPTOMS THAT PATIENTS MAY EXPERIENCE BEFORE A HEART ATTACK: What you need to know! CHEST PAIN OR DISCOMFORT: Many heart patients have early warning signs before a heart attack occurs. These signs are sometimes ignored by patients until it is too late for medical treatment. Last year 300,000 men and women died from heart attacks without reaching a hospital. Pain in one form or another almost always accompanies a heart attack. NEVER IGNORE PAIN IN YOUR CHEST. SEEK IMMEDIATE MEDICAL TREATMENT. Don't be embarrassed to go to the emergency room. EARLY DIAGNOSIS CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE! With prompt treatment, you stand a better chance of having an active life by minimizing potential heart damage. CIGARETTE SMOKING: Cigarettes contain toxic substances that cause heart disease, high blood pressure and lung disease. Smoking decreases the amount of oxygen in the bloodstream. Heart attacks occur when the heart does not get enough oxygen. When you stop smoking, some of your body tissues that have been damaged gradually return toward normal. THERE ALSO IS EVIDENCE THAT THE DEATH RATE OF CIGARETTE SMOKERS WHO QUIT IS ALMOST AS LOW AS THAT OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER SMOKED.
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Extractions: Personal MD.com Medical Contributor By now, most people have heard that high cholesterol levels are bad for our health. The obsession with making all sorts of foods that are fat and cholesterol free continues. But when is cholesterol considered too high and when should you have it checked? And what will happen if your cholesterol is too high? What about so-called "good" cholesterol? I will try to answer some of these common questions. First of all, it is important to understand that cholesterol and other fats (collectively known as lipids) are a necessary part of life. Without lipids, we would die. Cholesterol is an essential component in the membranes of our cells and is used by our bodies to make several different hormones that are important in every day life. Some fatty acids are essential nutrients and deficiencies can be harmful. Too much of a good thing, however, can be bad. We don't exactly know why yet, however, when the level of a certain type of cholesterol gets too
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