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Lower Cholesterol with Wine
OK, listen. French people eat tons of saturated fat. French people drink lots of wine, mostly red. And French people have low rates of cardiovscaulr disease. This chain of effects as resulted in the conclusion that drinking red wine helps prevent cardiovascular disease.
Up crops resveratrol, a chemical found in red wine at much higher levels [...]
What to do to Lower Cholesterol
If you have high cholesterol, then there are some additional factors you need to look at: your HDL, LDL and Cholesterol to HDL ratio (Cholesterol divided by HDL).
Cholesterol and your cholesterol ratio are used as risk indicators, but they aren’t fool-proof. If your cholesterol is 200 or lower, chances are your risk factor is probably [...]
Palm Oil and Heart Disease
Back in 1964, a study was conducted where researchers looked for heart attack indicators in thousands of autopsies in Africa nad the United States. The findings were surprising. In the African sample (Nigeria and Uguanda), they found only 3 out of more than 4,500 hearts, while the sample from the United States showed a much [...]
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