How’s Your Cholesterol?
I received the following letter in my email a few days ago:
According to the American Heart Association, 140 million adults have borderline-high or high cholesterol. Even if you feel great and have an active lifestyle – you might have elevated levels of cholesterol. CardioChek® (www.cardiochek.com) is the first device that allows anyone to easily test their cholesterol and other cardiovascular health indicators at home.
CardioChek is the first handheld device cleared by the FDA for at-home testing of total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, triglycerides, glucose and ketone levels-which can indicate risk for coronary heart disease, heart attack, stroke, diabetes and chronic diseases. The monitor and test strips produce results in less than two minutes on a large digital screen from just a small drop of blood.
In the United States, one in three adults have borderline or high cholesterol.
Club Hooligan tells us more:
A 2005 study by South African researchers found that a similar CardioCheck kit for doctors was just as accurate as lab testing. Popular Science magazine chose the analyzer as one of the top 10 personal health product innovations of 2006. The analyzer stores up to 30 results per type of test for future comparison and tracking. In addition to bad cholesterol, this measures good cholesterol, triglycerides and glucose.
Expect a full review once I've tried the CardioChek.
June 24th, 2007 at 6:59 am
Do not take cholesterol numbers too seriously. Medical people keep raising the numbers considered to be unhealthy, yet there is no direct evidence cholesterol actually causes serious problems. (It is by association only.)
Inflammation is thought to be more of a casual factor by the holistic community. As a holistic psychologist, your emotional health and mental health have more to do with your physical health, than cholesterol numbers. The essential factor is to keep the energy flowing in your body, veins and arteries, so your heart and brain are healthy. Feeling your feelings and emotions will keep your blood flow vital and alive.
April 15th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
For those which can’t yet afford a Cholesterol handheld device the only solution of checking their cholesterol levels is to visit a hospital laboratory. But, even Cholesterol is an important factor in calculating the risk of a heart attack, it is not always necessary that increased LDL and decreased HDL to be the substrate of an occurring heart attack. I would also agree with Doris Jeanette, Psy.D. who calls us to not give so much importance to our cholesterol levels as we use to.
I wrote on cholesterol at http://http://www.allheartattack.com/overview/where-cholesterol-come-from.php and hope this will help you better understand the cholesterol importance
have a healthy heart!