Trim your personal fat zones

9 ways to lower your risk of high cholesterol

Prevention is key when is comes to a healthy heart. Improve your cholesterol levels by following these tips

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9. Trim your personal fat zones

Losing about six percent of your body weight  could lower your LDL by 12 percent and raise your HDL by 18 percent, researchers say. The best weight-loss strategy for making your cholesterol levels healthier is a moderate-fat diet with lots of fresh fruit, vegetables and unsaturated fat from fish, nuts and olive and canola oils. Skip extremely low fat diets: while research shows that they can make plaque in arteries shrink, they're impossibly difficult for most people to follow. And plenty of studies show that a moderate-fat diet not only protects your heart well, but is also much more pleasurable.

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