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How To Reduce Ldl - Articles
7 Foods That Reduce Your LDL Cholesterol
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Taylor ..
Posted
Thu 09 Apr 2009 6:23pm
LDL Cholesterol is the bad type of Cholesterol that can build up in your arteries and cause various types of health problems such as heart attack and stroke. Keeping a balance of good and bad cholesterol in your body is the key to reducing your health risks. There are many new drugs that are prescribed to help lower your cholesterol but we ...
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Green Tea Significantly Reduces LDL (Bad Cholesterol)
by
Robert W.
Posted
Thu 11 Aug 2011 3:58am
The cultivation and consumption of tea has continued, uninterrupted, for at least 12,000 years, based upon documentation from China. Today, tea is the most commonly consumed beverage throughout the world other than water. As I discuss in detail in my recent book, A Cancer Prevention Guide for the Human Race, a lot of health claims h ...
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Antibodies against oxidized low-density lipoproteins in systemic sclerosis
by
Jan
Posted
Fri 11 Sep 2009 4:56pm
By A. L. Herrick and Colleague
Objective.
To investigate whether circulating concentrations of antibodies against oxidized low-density lipoproteins (LDL) are increased in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc).
Methods.
Oxidation of LDL and anti-oxidized LDL antibodies were measured in 26 patients with limited cutaneous SSc (LCSS ...
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Do Statins Reduce Small, Dense LDL? Fasting Sure Does
by
Mark S.
Posted
Mon 07 Feb 2011 12:28pm
I came across an interesting statin study the other day. It’s from last year, but I hadn’t seen it until recently. The study, entitled “ Statins Do Not Decrease Small, Dense Low Density-Lipoprotein ,” sought to understand the effect of statin therapy on small, dense LDL, the truly “bad” kind of “bad” cholesterol, the stuff that’s strongly assoc ...
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Carbohydrates and LDL
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Dr. William D.
Posted
Sun 04 Apr 2010 7:33am
There's a curious and powerful relationship between carbohydrates and LDL particles. Understanding this relationship is crucial to gaining control over heart disease risk.
(Note that I did not say "LDL cholesterol"--This is what confuses people, the notion that cholesterol is used as a surrogate marker to quantify various lipoproteins, incl ...
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