By: Richard Bleuze
New Science Reveals the Secret of Naturally Healthy Cholesterol Levels!
Do you have family members with high cholesterol and heart disease?
Do saturated fats and processed foods make up a large chunk of your diet?
Are you overweight or putting off physical exercise?
What about stress - do you ever find yourself about to cave under all
the pressure?
These are all risk factors for high cholesterol and its dangers.
If you or someone you love answered yes to these questions, then the next few minutes reading this article may be the most important you ever spend.
Adults over age 45 should have their blood cholesterol checked regularly. Where do you stand?
If, like a third of the nation, your cholesterol is too high, what are you going to do about it?
Approximately one in three adults in the United States has high cholesterol levels-that's 101 million Americans!
34.5 million have total levels of 240 mg/dL or above. This level is considered high risk.
Because high cholesterol has no symptoms, many people don't know they have a problem until the damage is already done.
If left untreated, high cholesterol can cause narrowing and hardening of the arteries, which can lead to a host of health issues like high blood pressure and heart disease, even death.
People with uncontrolled "bad" cholesterol are:
* At least twice as likely to get diabetes
* 3 times more likely to have a heart attack
* 6 times more likely to develop congestive heart failure
* 7 times more likely to suffer a stroke
Don't become a statistic! High cholesterol is extremely dangerous, but fortunately it can be addressed . . . although your doctor may not be telling you everything.
A study conducted by the Department of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center proves that niacin actually works better than prescription drugs for healthy cholesterol levels.
In this double-blind, randomized trial, niacin significantly increased HDL levels and decreased total cholesterol levels! Gemfibrozil's benefits to total and HDL cholesterol were smaller than those of niacin's and outweighed by the fact that the pharmaceutical drug actually raises (bad) LDL levels!
When natural, safe alternatives exist and are proven to work, why risk your health even further with prescription drugs?
The news is spreading fast. According to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, more than 50% of Americans achieve good health as a result of choosing alternative medicines instead of pharmaceutical drugs.
