Keep Your Heart Healthy - Reduce Your Fat Intake

No doubt about it. It is always best to "play it safe" and reduce your fat intake and those "bad" cholesterols which are doing both you body and health wrong.

It can be best and easily said that taking care of your heart is a most major part of staying in good health both generally and specifically. The fats and cholesterols in your bloodstream can do even more than harm your heart.

Simple day to day choices about your dietary intake and intakes and as well increasing your physical activity and activity levels can have both a very positive and immense positive impact and impacts on your overall health, mental as well as physical wellbeing, quality of the lives of both yourself, your loved ones and family members and of your course the longevity of your life span.

If one can place fat and fats in a category or categories it can be said and summarized that "fats" themselves, are on the three major simple classes of foods and food component classifications. The other two classes and categories along with fats, in dietary intakes, are proteins and carbohydrate classes. The body does need some to utilize the vitamins it absorbs, properly in order to keep our skin - our largest organ of the body, healthy, well and shining. In addition fats themselves are a major source of energy themselves for the bodies use. One gram of fat provides fully nine calories. However when it comes down to numbers and limits - your whole daily caloric intake should not provide or sustained by only fat - even though fat is such a rich source of energy for our bodies and daily activities. In general it is held that no more than 30 % of a standard person's daily calorie intake should be derived and obtained from fat sources themselves.

Cholesterol itself is a waxy, fat like substance found in every cell in the body. Cholesterol is not an unnatural compound placed in our bodies artificially or synthetically to cause human being trouble and disease. Cholesterol is naturally made and used in our bodies. However it's a question of quantity - of how much and quantity - which type of cholesterol - good or bad, beneficial or harmful cholesterol. Indeed the body makes and manufactures its own cholesterol in the liver of your body itself. In addition to been manufactured by the liver of your body, cholesterol and cholesterol compounds are found in many of the foods that we eat and consume on a daily and regular basis every day, week and month. Cholesterol in our bloodstreams is usually in the form and forms of either LDL or HDL cholesterols.

In the medical conditions of atherosclerosis (simply put a type of hardening of the arteries of the blood vessels of our bodies where the lumen or middle part of the tube or hose like structure becomes ever narrower causing less blood to be allowed to flow), cholesterol, fats and other substances build up on the artery walls - ever reducing the size, radius and areas of these blood vessels. The problems when it comes to our hearts and diseases of our heart and its ability to pump enough blood - both in volumes and flow rates to the rest of our bodies where oxygen is needed. Occurs when the blood vessels supplying the heart itself (the coronary arteries), themselves get plugged and occluded resulting in narrowing of these coronary (supplying the heart - the cardiac areas). As a result, the flow of both oxygen and the nutrient rich vital blood flow to the heart and its heart muscles themselves is reduced greatly and impeded. Heart and resulting coronary problems of circulation of blood and oxygen flow throughout the body then results.

When it comes down to cholesterol and your health it can be said and summarized simply that cholesterol in the blood and in your bloodstream is needed and necessary but too much cholesterol can lead to heart disease. Keep your heart and cardiac system healthy. Reduce your fat intake overall and reduce and keep down your "bad cholesterol levels'.



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