Overcome Cholesterol

About Overcome Cholesterol Android App

High cholesterol is a disease that most Americans expose. More than 100 million Americans have high cholesterol (above 200 mg / dL). The cause is clear, looking from the habits of their lives are very practical and delicious, this disease could have approached them all.

Unhealthy eating patterns and life as well as irregular, lipid substances in this blood can increase at any time. The bad news is that people with high cholesterol are very risky to heart disease and stroke due to blockage of arteries that force the heart to work extra to pump blood throughout the body tissues.

However, LDL cholesterol (the evil kind) can be reduced in number so it does not exceed the HDL cholesterol (which is good). Researchers have found a step that is effective in lowering cholesterol effectively, of course this is also in line with reduced risk of heart problems.
The word cholesterol is considered a scourge and should be avoided. Cholesterol is a complex compound that the body produces in the liver, and the rest from the outside of the body as in the diet is useful for the body. Cholesterol there are 2 kinds, namely:

LDL (low density lipoprotein) is called bad cholesterol that is harmful to the body and should be avoided,
HDL: high density lipoprotein that prevents bad cholesterol from settling and does not harm the body.
Bad cholesterol is the cause of atherosclerosis is calcification and hardening of blood vessel wall. Hardening of the blood vessels, especially the coronary arteries, becomes narrow and blocks the flow of blood flowing in them. This increases the risk of coronary heart disease

Cholesterol Function

But cholesterol is needed by humans as well to build cell walls and make hormones. Cholesterol is also an important component for making bile acids, steroid hormones and vitamin D.