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Life Style Changes To Lower The Cholesterol In Our Body And An Ayurvedic diet

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Fig- Cholesterol Cholesterol        Cholesterol is essential for your body, as it develops vitamins and builds cells and hormones. Due to such build-ups, the risk of heart attacks and heart diseases increases significantly. Cholesterol is like a fatty substance that is present in your blood. The liver generates the cholesterol that the body requires. However, even food products lead to the development of cholesterol. Though cholesterol is necessary for your body, excess of it can cause cardiovascular diseases. If your body has too much cholesterol, it will blend with the toxins and other harmful substances in your blood, resulting in plaque that sticks to the arteries’ walls.              High Density Lipoprotein(HDL)-Good Cholesterol HDL is considered good because it gets processed by the liver and is eventually removed from your bloodstream before it can develop plaque on the walls of the arteries. Good cholesterol is known as hi...
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