Watch cholesterol to beat Alzheimer’s

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Just in case you needed more reasons to lower your cholesterol, here’s one more. If you’re middle-aged and your cholesterol is even slightly raised, your risks of developing Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia and mental deterioration when you get older, increase signigicantly. People who have borderline cholesterol levels between 200 and 239mg/dl were [...]

Exercise increases “good” cholesterol

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If you’re not exercising already, here’s another good reason to do so. According to a report published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, a review of previously-published studies showed that aerobic exercise (the kind that gets your heart pumping fast) can help increase the levels of “good” (HDL) cholesterol in your body. The increase was [...]