Sep 24, 2018 | Know Your Heart
Heart is a fancy electric pump! The heart is indeed a biological miracle. Fist-sized, it pumps blood through the entire body for a whole life time, day and night. It is the blood which supplies nutrients and oxygen to the body. It is through the blood again , that...
Oct 31, 2017 | Know Your Heart
How can you reduce cholesterol? In most cases a balanced diet, regular exercise and medicines will regulate your blood cholesterol levels. We will discuss only that part of a balanced diet which helps reduce cholesterol, that is fat and fibre content of diet....
Oct 30, 2017 | Know Your Heart
Cholesterol levels among Indians. Indians are at a higher risk of getting heart disease as compared to people of other nationalities. Hence the ideal cholesterol levels as determined for the British or American people are not ideal for Indians. Indians need more rigid...
Oct 28, 2017 | Know Your Heart
Types of cholesterol. On the contrary, LDL (bad) cholesterol helps deposit fatty substances inside your arteries. When LDL level is high, the possibility of suffering from heart disease is high. Hence, it is important that your HDL cholesterol should be high and your...
Oct 9, 2017 | Know Your Heart
Types of Cholesterol. There are different components of cholesterol as can be seen from the table below. TC – Total Cholesterol HDL – High Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol LDL – Low Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol TG – Triglyceride VLDL –...
