AP9 SimplyYou Offers Consumers Five Surefire Ways to Lower Cholesterol - Yahoo! News

"Consumers have all heard about the dangers of cholesterol. Across America, and now across the world, a combination of poor diets, inactivity and bad habits have sent cholesterol levels soaring, leaving consumers prone to heart disease, heart attacks and strokes."


AP9 SimplyYou Offers Consumers Five Surefire Ways to Lower Cholesterol - Yahoo! News

Chocolate chip cookie lowers cholesterol

"The presence of soluble fiber carries cholesterol out of the body, while the plant sterols block its absorption from food, said Right Direction Foods."

Chocolate chip cookie lowers cholesterol

Studies show soy may not lower cholesterol

"An American Heart Association committee reviewed a decade of studies on soy’s benefits and came up with results that are casting doubt on the health claim that soy-based foods and supplements significantly lower cholesterol."

The State | 01/23/2006 | Studies show soy may not lower cholesterol

Does decaf coffee boost your cholesterol level?

"Many studies have tried to determine if coffee consumption has an effect on cholesterol. Unfortunately, the results are inconsistent. Most of the research found that filtered coffee, whether caffeinated or decaf, did not have much effect on cholesterol or triglycerides. Boiled or percolated coffee, however, does appear to raise cholesterol levels (American Journal of Epidemiology, Feb. 15, 2001). So does French press coffee."

Bradenton Herald | 01/26/2006 | Does decaf coffee boost your cholesterol level?

Moving to music can reduce blood pressure, cholesterol

"Dancing regularly can lower your pulse and blood pressure and improve cholesterol levels, Day of Dance organizers point out."


Dancing your way to a new you

Baby's genes affect mom's cholesterol levels at Pregnancy & Baby

"The researchers, led by Olivier S. Descamps of the Centre de Recherche Médicale de Jolimont in Haine Saint-Paul and of the Université Catholique de Louvain in Brussels, studied genes and proteins involved in fat metabolism from the blood and placenta of 525 pregnant women. Because all cells from the placenta originate from the fetus, they are a good indication of the genes and proteins produced by the baby."

Pregnancy Health and Wellness: Baby's genes affect mom's cholesterol levels at Pregnancy & Baby

The Nuts that May Clobber Cholesterol

"If you are looking for a way to keep your heart healthy and still satisfy your snacking mood, pistachios and sunflower seeds may be the powerful cholesterol-fighting tool your body needs."

ABC News: The Nuts that May Clobber Cholesterol

A Second Bullet For Cholesterol

"There is nothing the pharmaceutical industry likes better than a pill that can reduce the risk of disease for millions of people if taken every day. In other words, drugmakers love statins. These cholesterol-lowering medicines, first introduced a decade ago, can cut the risk of heart attack and stroke by a third when taken regularly. As a result, they have become the best-selling drugs in the world, earning billions upon billions for their makers."

A Second Bullet For Cholesterol