Health Tip: Risk Factors for High Cholesterol?

(HealthDay News) -- Cholesterol is a fat-like substance that's found naturally in the body. And while some cholesterol is necessary, too much of it built up in the blood increases your risk of heart disease. Read more

How to Lower Your Cholesterol Level

Chances are that you're visiting this web site because you want to find about more about cholesterol and how to keep your cholesterol level low or how to lower your cholesterol level if it is high.

Here are steps you can take to lower your blood cholesterol or keep it low:

• Follow a low saturated fat, low-cholesterol diet.
• Be more physically active.
• Lose weight if you are overweight. Continue Reading >>
  

Egg-citing News About My Favorite Comfort Food

By Julie Upton

One of my favorite comfort foods is scrambled eggs. I love eggs pretty much any way you can prepare them, but scrambled with toast is what I crave when I’m not feeling well, think I’m not feeling well, or just need to give myself a good dose of food love.

The other day when I went out for brunch with my girlfriends after a long run, I needed some major comfort food for my achy muscles and bruised ego from not being able to keep up for most of the run. After I ordered my scrambled eggs and whole wheat toast, I noticed that most of my friends ordered egg white-only options.

I told them that without the yolk, they were missing out on most of the important vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients in eggs, like vitamin D, zinc, and lutein. They reminded me that the average yolk packs 210 mg of cholesterol. I shot back that dietary cholesterol is not what raises blood cholesterol, it’s saturated fat, and egg yolks are relatively low in saturated fat. Moreover, studies show that people who eat eggs don’t necessarily have high blood cholesterol levels.
When I read a major report about eggs and choline being linked to a reduction in breast cancer, I dashed it off to my egg yolk-averse friends. Read More