{"id":3920,"date":"2011-11-04T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T10:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=3920"},"modified":"2011-11-01T21:19:02","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T01:19:02","slug":"lowering-cholesterol-may-not-be-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/11\/04\/lowering-cholesterol-may-not-be-the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Lowering Cholesterol May Not Be The Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2010\/04\/25\/causes-of-high-blood-cholesterol-or-ldl\/cholesterol-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3534\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3534\" title=\"Cholesterol\" src=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cholesterol-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cholesterol-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cholesterol-60x60.jpg 60w, https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cholesterol.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Doctors and patients should pay more attention to so-called \u201cgood\u201d HDL cholesterol and less to total cholesterol figures, a large-scale study published in this week\u2019s American College of Cardiology found.<\/p>\n<p>In this study of more than 30,000 adults, it was discovered that increasing HDL levels was the most important way to reduce heart disease risk \u2013more so than lowering total cholesterol. The researchers note that HDL helps clear out existing cholesterol build-up in the heart\u2019s arteries, improving artery health over time. Effective ways to boost HDL cholesterol include eating fish, exercising and consuming moderate amounts of red wine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/cholesterol\/\">More cholesterol-busters&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All The best,<\/p>\n<p>Scott Davis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors and patients should pay more attention to so-called \u201cgood\u201d HDL cholesterol and less to total cholesterol figures, a large-scale study published in this week\u2019s American College of Cardiology found. In this study of more than 30,000 adults, it was discovered that increasing HDL levels was the most important way to reduce heart disease risk [&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-3920","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\/3920","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=3920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}