Lower Your Cholesterol Naturally

Eating saturated fats like you find in meats can cause heart disease. That’s pretty much an established fact and is well known. But smoking cigarettes not only do they mess up your lungs, but they really cause problems with your arteries. When I read about all the toxins that are introduced into the blood from smoking - WOW! it scares me.

I was one of the fortunate ones in that at 14 I went in the woods with the other boys and tried a cigarette. Actually it was a little Italian cigar. After two puffs – it made me so sick that I lay on the couch and thought I was going to die. I was sick for at least an hour. That was enough for me. I never smoked again.

If you smoke – read about what it puts in your blood. It will scare you smokeless! Mainly free radicals which can combine with LDL bad cholesterol, make it easier to penetrate the artery cell walls, and start the accumulation of cholesterol there.

From this point on it becomes a race – does lung cancer win or is the winner a heart attack? Either way you’re introducing yourself to a world of pain.

Smoking also lowers your HDL good cholesterol. In most cases, you want to eat or do things(like exercise) that will raise your HDL levels not lower them.

So do yourself a BIG favor and leave cigarettes alone.