Increasingly many people have high cholesterol levels and sadly this might lead to heart disease and other serious illnesses, such as strokes and heart attacks. It is a fact that one of the main causes of death in people nowadays is coronary heart disease. Main contributor to this are a sedentary lifestyle, smoking and drinking, as well as consuming high saturated fats.

Currently there are many drugs that help with lowering the cholesterol levels, such as the HMG-CoA Reductase Inhibitor (also called Statins), and they are used more and more to help high risk patients reduce their levels of cholesterolt to normal. This particular drug also increases the good (or HDL) cholesterol levels.

Even though these kinds of drugs are used quite effectively, there are different ways to treat the cholesterol problem without having to use pills. For example just by leading a more active lifestyle, by practicing exercise regularly and simply not being any longer a couch potato will help lower your cholesterol levels. These also help with lower blood pressure, obesity and risk of diabetes.

A low cholesterol diet automatically also helps with decreasing the levels of high cholesterol in the body by up to 29% every month. This means that following such a healthy diet is as effective as using drugs such as Statins. Also it has been shown that eating high fibre foods reduce your cholesterol level by 7%.

It is recommended to consume unprocessed fats as well as non-hydrogenated fats, eating foods rich in fiber and soy protein, as well as increasing consumption of Omega-3 fats from fish. All this will get you a long way towards being able to lower cholesterol levels without having to resort to using drugs.