Besides making your heart stronger, exercise cuts the risk of heart disease in half. No matter how old, sick, or bored, there's an exercise programme that's right for you, so move on. Stress, anxiety and anger contribute to heart diseases in a mechanism yet unknown. Measuring anger or stress isn't as simple as measuring your blood cholesterol, body weight or blood pressure, yet research is full of evidence of its harm. When a stressful life-style cannot be changed, few relaxation techniques like praying, yoga and meditation can be practised to minimise that stress.
Animal fat is the main source of cholesterol in our diet.
Animal fat sources, such as ghee, solid shortening, red meat, eggs, whole-fat dairy products should be limited. Fish, skinless chicken, skimmed or low-fat dairy products should be used instead. Polyunsaturated fats such as corn, sun flower or soya oils can be used in cooking in moderate quantities not exceeding 10 per cent of your total daily caloric intake. One of nature's cheapest, fast acting and safe cholesterol fighting drugs is soluble fibre. Oat flakes, muesli or oatmeal, all types of beans, such as kidney beans, white beans, lentils, soybeans and chickpeas, fruits such as apples, oranges, and grape fruit, vegetables, such as broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage and okra, are valuable sources of fibre.