Latest Articles

Exercise, Cholesterol and Statin Drugs
Studies over the last 60 years have shown that people who exercise are healthier than those who do not. Over the last 10 years, many studies have shown that the more intense the exercise, the greater the protection. A report from Italy shows that...

Reduce Cholesterol By Eating Right
Has your doctor advised you to reduce your cholesterol level? That is no surprise considering how many people have high cholesterol these days. To help lower your cholesterol, here are 10 simple tips you can use live a healthier life. For...

Steps To Lower The Cholesterol Level
The following steps help to achieve lower cholesterol level. 1.Heavy weight people have higher levels of cholesterol. By losing weight the bad cholesterol or the LDL level in heavyweight people reduces naturally. In order to check whether one is...

Stress Can Cause High Cholesterol Levels

Nowadays in this fast paced world and changing lifestyle majority of the people are in the burden of stress. Stress has become an integral part of every human being and they try to find the ways to lower it down significantly. Being everyone stressed out, now it has become very important in how to react in these situations. Many people either fall prey to this stress or succumb to this ever raising tension. It has been noticed that people who are generally stressed out tend to develop various diseases like ulcers, chronic diseases and even heart diseases.

Cholesterol is nothing but a waxy, lipid substance circulating in the human body providing fat and guarding the arteries. It not only produces sex hormones but also provide much required fat to the body. There has been a significant increase in the deaths related to cholesterol and its related diseases. Scientifically it has not been proved that why increased stress leads to high level of cholesterol. But yes it is true that cholesterol level increases by two to three percent during the stressful situations.

Researchers have concluded that people suffering from prolonged mental stress tend to produce more cholesterol in comparison to a normal man. And

these are the persons who tend to get heart attack within the span of short time once their cholesterol level reaches sky high. People falling in this category are mainly advised to do some stress busting exercises and are told to eat more green and fresh vegetables teemed with less fat and oil in it. These people are generally taught to learn few quick and small stress busting tricks so that they can use it whenever they feel stressed out.

It has been witnessed that at the time of stress and tension people tend to smoke or drink more than usual which leads to increase in cholesterol level. So they are usually informed to avoid drinking and smoking at this point of time so that they don't invite heart diseases with open arms. These days people feel stressed out in every situation whether its job stress, family tensions or even any financial crisis. It's just that how to maintain to your mental status at that point of time is of prime concern.

So if you feel stressed out and tensed then instead of panicking go for some light exercises which can release your tension and can make you feel more relaxed and keeps your temperament cool.

About the author:

Author is experienced health expert.
Written By: Vivek Sharma


One In Five May Not Know They Have HIV - WFTV
WASHINGTON -- Two years after the government urged making HIV tests as common as cholesterol checks, there are small gains but still one in five people infected with the AIDS virus doesn't know it, scientists said Thursday. Eleven states that once ...

LDL cholesterol inhibits the breakdown of peripheral fat - News-Medical.Net
The discovery reveals a novel function of LDL as a regulator of fat turnover besides its well-established detrimental effects in promoting atherosclerosis. The study, which is a collaboration of two research groups at Karolinska Institutet, is ...

HIV tests not yet as routine as cholesterol checks - KVAL
WASHINGTON (AP) - Two years after the government urged making HIV tests as common as cholesterol checks, there are small gains but still one in five people infected with the AIDS virus doesn't know it, scientists said Thursday. Eleven states that ...

Heart attacks strike low-risk patients - South China Morning Post
More than 50 per cent of people who appeared to have a low risk of heart disease ended up having heart attacks, a pioneering database shows. The acute coronary syndrome database also found that 70 per cent of people who said they had experienced no ...

Study finds statins reduce heart disease risk - U-Wire.com
Four hundred fifty thousand people will die this year of coronary heart disease, according to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and half of them will be healthy individuals who do not have high levels of cholesterol. This is the ...

Google