Very high cholesterol intake contributes to high blood cholesterol levels, but a more important dietary factor is a high intake of saturated fat. This is found in fatty meat products (such as pies or sausages), full-fat dairy foods, biscuits and cakes.
High cholesterol foods include offal, shellfish, eggs and dairy foods.
Other elements that also influence blood cholesterol levels include genetic factors (high cholesterol levels sometimes run in families) and lifestyle factors, such as lack of exercise. Read more on What Causes High Blood Cholesterol?…
Filed under Heart & Circulation on Feb 25th, 2010. Comment. 
Cholesterol is a fatty substance that is found naturally in all human and animal tissues. It is part of normal cell structure and is essential to a number of body processes, such as the formation of certain hormones.
Cholesterol is an important ingredient of bile, which is made in the liver and released into the duodenum via the gall bladder. Bile aids the digestion of fatty foods. Cholesterol is carried in the blood stream linked to special proteins known as lipoproteins.
Much of the cholesterol present in the diet is absorbed for the body to utilise. However since the body can synthesise all the cholesterol it needs in the liver and other cells, a dietary intake of cholesterol is not needed.
“Although cholesterol is essential to sustain life, too much cholesterol in the blood can cause serious health problems”
HOW TO REDUCE YOUR BLOOD CHOLESTEROL LEVEL.
Filed under Heart & Circulation on Feb 18th, 2010. 2 Comments.
You can purchase standard pH test strips that will test urine and saliva. The scales on the strips are usually from a low of 5.5 to a high of 8.0. To get a good saliva sample, swallow any current saliva in your mouth then put a little fresh spit between your lips and fully wet the ph paper in the solution. Immediately hold the sample up to a ph grid on your test packet and check.
With the urine pass the paper through your mid stream. This is the middle part of the urine.
Health saliva readings should range from between 6.4 – 6.8. Healthy vegetarians reading may score slightly higher. For a true reading do your test upon rising before brushing your teeth or eating breakfast.
To help maintain its balance, ideal urine ph should cycle from a low of 5.5 to Read more on Testing your body’s pH level…
Filed under General Health on Dec 23rd, 2009. Comment.
If your anus is
• itching,
• there is a painful swelling that hangs like grapes
• there is blood
• and if its painful when expelling a hard stool
than you may be experiencing haemorrhoids (piles). The most common type develops inside the anus; these can sometimes bleed but not be painful. The external ones are painful. They can sometimes become prolapsed and protrude from the anus – looking like a soft lump.
It is said that long sitting, ageing and pregnancy can all contribute to haemorrhoids. When straining to perform a bowel movement you can make the haemorrhoids worse.
If you are looking for comfort and relief try these top tips:
Add a good handful of Epsom salts into your bath, stir, dissolving the salts well. Immerse the area into the bath – this should help to constrict the haemorrhoid. You may want to try a sitz bath. You can have a sitz bath with any part of the body, i.e. hips, hands, feet. For the purpose of this article we are concentrating on the lower part of the anatomy.
If you have a bidet than use it by placing your bottom in a full bowl of arm water, sit for 10 minutes in the warm water, drain the bidet, refill with cold water and sit for 5 minutes. When you’ve finished alternating between hot and cold (do this for half and hour) than completely dry the area.
What you’re trying to achieve is shrinkage of swollen vessels, providing enormous relief.
Remember
Please dab the area – do not scratch
You can also try sitting on ice. Read more on Haemorrhoids…
Filed under Colon Care on Oct 8th, 2009. Comment.
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