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Cholesterol 180
A five step approach to lowering high blood cholesterol.

Protect Your Heart
Tips on how to avoid ill effects of high lipid levels.

Cardiology Tulsa
This educational website deals with heart related matters, including controlling cholesterol.

Cholesterol Busters
An informative website that takes an "all-natural" approach to controlling high cholesterol.

Alt.support.diet
A newsgroup devoted to cholesterol related issues.

Americans Take Cholesterol Advice to Heart
Tips to lower blood cholesterol, with recent articles in the press on high cholesterol

How to Lower your Cholesterol
A self-help guide and tutorial on simple steps to bring your cholesterol levels under control.

Put knowledge behind your numbers to lower your confusion level
A primer about normal and acceptable levels of serum cholesterol from the Mayo Clinic.

Cholesterol-lowering drugs - How they work and who may need them
An article on the role of drugs in bringing high serum cholesterol levels under control.

Heart attack survivors - It's not too late to lower your cholesterol
An article from the Mayo Clinic on the importance of lowering serum cholesterol even after a heart attack.

International Food Information Council
Contains information about food stuffs and cholesterol, with dietary advice and other tasty bits of knowledge on high cholesterol.

Very Low Fat Diet FAQ
Answers to common queries, and some recipes with low fat content

New evidence that lowering cholesterol prolongs life
Current evidence shows that bringing cholesterol levels under control has survival benefits.

Normal cholesterol but high triglycerides
Can this happen ? Should you be worried ? This article from the Mayo Clinic clears up any doubts on this topic.

Trans fatty acids and heart disease
The role of different types of fatty acids on the development of heart disease is discussed in this article.

Obesity - a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke
Obesity is one of the main reversible risk factors for a heart attack says this article from the Mayo Clinic.

Lipitor - A new cholesterol-lowering drug
An account of this new drug used to treat hypercholesterolemia, from the Mayo Clinic website.

Winning the war on Cholesterol
Useful material here on how to cut your blood fat content and live a longer happier life.

Quick Guide to Cholesterol
Brief descriptions of cholesterol oriented issues.

Newsdesk - ELEVATED CHOLESTEROL
Read the latest news on high cholesterol.

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