Raised blood cholesterol! One of the most discussed matter among the heath issues throughout the world. Doctors are prescribing and people also taking statins (the drug that is used to reduce raised cholesterol in blood) randomly. Pharmaceuticals companies are doing billions of dollar business with this. Doctor, patient or pharmaceutical companies every one is satisfied.
Now if I call this as a scam-the scam of cholesterol, everybody will raise brow to me… This is an extremely money-making scam and may be you are one of the millions of sufferer. Now it is time to know the truth before you suffer further damage.
Every year, millions of people fall victim to the very deceptive, highly profitable cholesterol scam … are you one of them? If you are taking a cholesterol lowering medication, also called statins, the answer is an astounding yes! It’s time to take action: Get off them immediately, before they do any more damage.

There are many significant responsibilities, (especially in both the body and brain) are performed by the Low Density Lipoproteins (LDL), one of the components of body cholesterol. Hormones, vitamins and minerals provide many benefits to our body. The basic functions of hormones and vitamins, especially vitamin D, depend on this cholesterol .cholesterol acts as the covering of nerve cells. Brain is nothing but a whole piece of group of nerve cells which is controlling our whole body functions. So think about the amount of cholesterol in brain. Inside the blood vessels cholesterol removes the toxic substances from the blood, thus protects the blood vessels form any active damage. How it can do this? As cell wall is sixty eight percent composed of cholesterol it acts as sealing and repairing agent of any injured or weaken arteries by any toxic substances produced inside the body. About four fifth of total cholesterol is produced inside the body and the rest one forth we can get from food. As our body always understands its need, when cholesterol level goes down body can response into a fatal outcome even up to heart attack like raised level!
Raised LDL? First of all think from the point of body’s view. it may be due to some other passive causes like decrease of Vit C(responsible for production of collagens, one of the cell wall elements; decrease of which cause raised LDL), thyroid hormone level and depression even, as LDL is responsible for the stress hormone production.
Moreover the Lipid profile which we do is usually often useless as our blood cholesterol may vary form time to time. So nothing but the waste of money and time.
Unfortunately, statins lowers the LDL, which is needed inside the body most.
So if you find your LDL raised, Use Vit C regularly which is very cheap and available,
Be conscious about your thyroid status.
Some “noteworthy benefits” of statins are: creates Congestive heart Failure and cardiomypathy, calcification of heart vessels, raised risk of kidney damage.
Now what benefits can you get really from the lipid lowering drugs?
The answer is: nothing…

Cholesterol control has become a major issue these days. So many medicines are used to get rid of extra cholesterol. But controlling cholesterol can be easily done by having the right diet. Dieting does not necessarily mean that you have to give up all your favorite delicious foods and eat boring tasteless foods. Dieting suggests having all sorts of food but at a right quantity.

If we observe carefully we will see there are some foods that we consume every day. Those are fruits and vegetables, cereals, rice, beans, bread, pasta, meat, poultry, fish, eggs, dairy products, fats and sugar.

Now let’s see, how much of which food we should take to keep ourselves healthy.

We should take at least 4portions of fibers every day. Fruits and vegetables contain fibers and are helpful for our health. Eat plenty of cereals and fish. Eat foods like rice, potatoes and breads if you are a sportsman as these are the source of energy. Try to avoid consuming excess egg, milk, fat or sugar as they increase unnecessary body fats. Avoid eating them would cut down the cholesterol level in your body.
Try to control eating meats cooked with a lot of fat. Use boiling method instead of frying method when it comes to cooking meats. If it’s needed to be fried use olive or corn oil and pill off the skin before frying.

As I told before eat as much fibers as you can. It helps to reduce blood cholesterol. Foods like fruits, beans, cereals oats buckwheat have fibers and can be taken as breakfast of snacks.

Fruits and vegetables are also sources of antioxidants which are considered to be a cholesterol controller. Antioxidants are also found in nuts, soya beans and seeds and in some organic foods.

Following the above mentioned diet would definitely reduce the cholesterol in your body and give you the chance to live a healthy and disease free life.