what causes high cholesterol?

Answer 1

Heredity plays a role in high cholesterol. Your genes can influence your LDL by affecting how fast it is made and removed from your blood. There is one particular form of inherited high cholesterol that will often lead to early heart disease. It is called familial “hypercholesterolemia” and can play a role in 1 of 500 people.

Weight is another factor in determining your LDL. If you have a high LDL level and are overweight, losing those pounds may help you to lower it. Additionally, losing weight also helps to lower triglycerides and raise your HDL.

Age and sex should be considered as well. Women, before menopause, usually have total cholesterol levels that are lower than men. This changes as men and women age. Levels will rise until reaching age 60 to 65. For women, menopause can cause an increase in LDL and a decrease in HDL. After the age of 50 women often have higher total cholesterol levels than men of the same age.

Alcohol plays an odd role in cholesterol levels. It increases HDL but at the same time it does not lower LDL. The medical community does not know for certain whether alcohol reduces the risk of heart disease. We know that too much alcohol can damage the liver and heart muscle, lead to high blood pressure and raise triglycerides. There are just too many other risks to even consider the use of alcoholic beverages used as a way to prevent heart disease just because it increased the HDL.

Stress and personality may contribute to heart disease. Associating a certain type of personality and heart disease has been suggested for many years. This goes back to the “Type A” and “Type B” personality study conducted in 1959.

Type A behavior generally manifests in a chronic sense of time, urgency, aggressiveness and striving for achievement. Type A people will drive themselves to meet specific deadlines which are most often self-imposed. They have feelings of being constantly under pressure and often multi-task to the point of doing two or three things at one time. To say that Type A people are “driven” is an understatement. They consider themselves indispensable. All of these traits add up to a state of constant stress.

So, if you don't want high cholesterol, eat right, exercise, and try to relax!

Answer 2

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Answer 3

- What causes high cholesterol?

There are several factors that may contribute to high blood cholesterol:

a diet that's high in saturated fat and, less so, high in cholesterol
lack of exercise may increase LDL ("bad") cholesterol and decrease HDL ("good") cholesterol family history - people are at a higher risk of high cholesterol if they have a direct male relative aged under 55 or female relative aged under 65 affected by coronary heart disease being overweight, which may increase LDL ("bad") cholesterol and decrease HDL ("good") cholesterol age and sex - cholesterol generally rises slightly with increasing age, and men are more likely to be affected than women
drinking alcohol excessively

Rarely, high cholesterol can be caused by a condition that runs in the family called a lipid disorder (familial hypercholesterolaemia).

Other health conditions such as poorly controlled diabetes, certain kidney and liver diseases and an underactive thyroid gland may also cause cholesterol levels to rise. Some medicines such as beta-blockers, steroids or thiazides (a type of diuretic) may also affect blood lipid levels.

- How diet affects blood cholesterol

Only about 20% of cholesterol comes directly from the diet - the other 80% is produced by the liver. However, a diet high in saturated fats and cholesterol can cause the liver to produce more LDL ("bad") cholesterol. The amount that diet influences cholesterol levels varies from person to person and is probably an inherited characteristic. Some people who eat high-fat diets have high cholesterol levels; others may have normal or low cholesterol levels.

Answer 4

Despite the presiding myth: 'If you eat cholesterol you will have bad cholesterol', it isn't as simple as that. And alot of drug companies thrive because people continue to take their drugs to lower cholesterol than to simply modify their diet.

Eating cholesterol is natural and good for you! Yes - we need certain fats and cholesterols in our diet.

The first point is: There are different types of cholesterol. Some good and some bad. Think about it.

LDL = Bad. Why? Because it sticks to the sides of your arteries and creates blockage over time.

HDL = Good. Why? Because it is thought to combat LDL (bad) cholesterol by carrying it away from the arteries and out of the body!

Triglycerides are a certain type of fat, and contribute to raising your bad levels of cholesterol. Eating deep fried foods (ie.fast food, junk food..) raises the levels of Triglycerides in your body. If you are overweight or diabetic your Triglyceride count will be higher.

My grandmother is 98 years old and has eaten butter and animal fats all her life. She has never cut out red meat and her heart is like that of a young woman!

Eat alot of fruit and vegetables, cut out fast foods and make sure to exercise regularly. These few changes will lower your overall cholesterol naturally.

Whatever you do - unless absolutely neccessary - try not to resort to pills to solve the problem. The average person can maintain a healthy cholesterol level naturally!

Answer 5

Usually it is related to consumption of high fat in the diet. It may also be caused by genetics, in which case your body produces too much cholesterol.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

dairy products - cheese, milk, yoghurts, eggs.... try to buy cholesterol free or reduced cholesterol if you want to reduce it. Octopus and certain meat such as pork are high in cholesterol too.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Hi eating all the wrong sorts off food,eggs are the highest,full cream milk,cheeses all types,bacon,cakes, etc look on the website there lots off info there.I just had my cholectrol done it came back not bad,i have now changed some off my eating habits,you have to really especially if your gp is going to keep check on you.Its not hard either to now watch what you eat ive even lost weight so it cant be that bad

Answer 10

Eating too much food with cholesterol in.