{"id":1698,"date":"2011-07-08T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/blog\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2011-08-07T02:41:14","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T06:41:14","slug":"two-keys-to-dropping-elevated-cholesterol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/07\/08\/two-keys-to-dropping-elevated-cholesterol\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Keys to Dropping Elevated Cholesterol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/07\/08\/two-keys-to-dropping-elevated-cholesterol\/older-man-pushups\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1640\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/blog\/home\/blueher1\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/older-man-pushups-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"older man pushups\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1640\" \/><\/a>It may not be the sexiest study result, but researchers from Northern Illinois University found definitively that eating healthy and exercising are guaranteed ways to dramatically lower high cholesterol levels. <\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that the one-two punch of exercise and a \u201cprudent\u201d diet defined by eating a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains and lean meats outperformed cholesterol-lowering medications like Lipitor. <\/p>\n<p>They found that exercising at least four times per week, limiting trans and saturated fat intake to less than 10 percent of total calories and consuming at least 25 g of fiber per day reduced total cholesterol by an average of 15 points. They also found that these healthy lifestyle changes reduced triglycerides and \u201cbad\u201d LDL cholesterol significantly. <\/p>\n<p>Have high cholesterol and are sick of taking dangerous meds? <a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/cholesterol\/\">Here\u2019s a natural method that works even better&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To Your Health,<\/p>\n<p>Scott Davis<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may not be the sexiest study result, but researchers from Northern Illinois University found definitively that eating healthy and exercising are guaranteed ways to dramatically lower high cholesterol levels. The researchers found that the one-two punch of exercise and a \u201cprudent\u201d diet defined by eating a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-cholesterol"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}