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Naturally Lowering Cholesterol
Posted by Adrian Hardmann at Mar 23rd, 2009 in Cholesterol
If you need to lower your cholesterol you can always take the medication route. Doctors are usually reluctant to go down this route unless there are extenuating circumstances, such as an abnormally high or critical cholesterol reading. There is no doubt that medication works to lower cholesterol in the body but doctors prefer the individual to take more responsibility for their own well being.
You could say there are two reasons why they see it this way. By getting the individual more involved there is more chance that they will become more aware of good preventative care and the alternative to medication is actually quite easy. Of course, I say quite easy but it is more work than swallowing a pill but the benefits are there to see after a months. Having a healthy heart and low cholesterol levels require focusing a high level of attention to diet and exercise.
You will need to find out information regarding cholesterol and ways you can reduce the levels in your bloodstream. There are a lot of cookbooks out there that will instruct you about the types of foods you need to eat to reduce your cholesterol levels. This is the best method to make your health better and for naturally lowering cholesterol. These cookbooks are loaded with recipes that will show you how to prepare excellent meals that will keep you on the right path for a healthy heart.
Once you master the cooking methods of healthy meals that result in naturally lowering cholesterol levels and also preventing heart diseases, you will start feeling that the foods are much tastier and don’t make you feel full and bloated. The best part of eating a healthy diet is this. When you take foods containing excess fat and cholesterol, you will tend to feel unhealthy and the foods won’t taste any good as they used to.
You can include your entire family in your search for ways of naturally lowering cholesterol. Although some kinds of foods are not approved doesn’t mean you have to deny your family the foods they love the most. Sometimes it is only a matter of fixing the food in a different way such as getting rid of fattening creamy sauces or substituting skinless ground turkey for hamburger when you fix your family their favorite meals.
Diet is a fantastic method you can be using for naturally lowering cholesterol, but exercise is a helpful component too. This isn’t to say that you need to begin marathon training. Start including some basic exercise in your everyday routine which can be as easy and simple as walking. If you haven’t been doing anything whatsoever, check with your doctor and get started; any amount of exercise will be to your benefit.
Once you start naturally lowering cholesterol, your appearance will improve and you’ll feel better if you incorporate a regimen of good exercise into your day to day life. Soon, you’ll be amazed at how you ever managed to cope without it and be champing at the bit to get that exercise fix. Exercise is fun and relaxing, and you should look for and choose a plan which includes activities that are appealing to you. Exercise can also reduce stress that is thought to contribute to many health problems.
Following a healthy eating plan will make it possible to naturally lower cholesterol levels. To achieve your body’s maximum potential, you will want to exercise and take care of yourself. You will be pleasantly surprised to find that when you put yourself and your health needs first, you will not only lower your cholesterol levels but will brighten your whole life. As you go about your daily activities, you will find yourself filled with health and energy.
Tags: Cholesterol
Try to eat low fat foods,exercise,and have salmon at least twice a week
Reduce how much fatty foods you eat.
Cut back on junk food, if you need a quick fast food meal, order or salad, or just skip the fries and go light on the mayo.
Eat things like yogurt or veggie chips for snacks instead of potato chips…
Go for walks.
This stuff is nonsense. Don't go anywhere near it. Any weight loss is strictly temporary, primarily from dehydration.
So all those models in LA are really 60?
Even with all the anger and frustration in here, the most galling comments (imo) are the ones attempting to call to task those who are posting as anonymous. Um, grow up. Not only was it suggested, it was encouraged. How brave are those who boldly post their names, and then go on to gush about agents? Isn’t this AgentFail?
Removing the possibility of retribution insures comments will be honest.
People want to feel as though they can speak freely. Guess what–speak freely in the real world, and it will come back to bite you in the butt. That’s reality. Gotta love that segment of the population eager to usurp others’ right to decide their own course of action and then make pariahs of those who choose a different path. Have the balls to let others choose their own tack. I assure you, we won’t lose a hundred acres of Brazilian rain forest in the process, if posters choose to go anonymous. If you’d like to post your name and then leave negative comments, you have every right in the world to shoot yourself in the foot.
On the flip side, a couple of people (or perhaps just the one, over and over and over) are suggesting ‘outing’ agents who have committed sins in our eyes. Um, no. The purpose of this blog idea seems to be for us to vent, and hopefully for agents to see what issues are most on the minds of writers when querying or dealing with them. I don’t think vengeance is one of the goals of AgentFail. And will those outed agents be given notice they’re being lambasted over here and then have the opportunity to defend themselves?
All that being said, I agree with the "no response, no interest" complaint. I have no problem with the policy, but send an auto-response with each query so we know the query was received. That’s the biggest snag with that policy. Do I then keep status-checking and re-subbing my query? Send an auto response, and I will never both you again if I get no rejection/request from the initial query. Just tell me you got it. Auto response, once set up, requires you do nothing else from that point on. See? It’s just like ignoring queries you don’t want. It’s automatic.
Agents who refuse to accept email queries: um, how long’s the internet been up and running, and saving trees and landfills?? And agent fighting against technology is likely not going to be able to do anything for me. See, I hear all these editors and publishers are using what? Email. What can you do for me in the world of publishing by desperately clinging to your Fred and Barney ways? Want me to send you my ms handwritten or typed (and corrected, ack) on a typewriter? Join the planet, please.
Again, as others have said, keep your submission requirements current on all sites in which your policy appears. If I check three different sites and come up with three different policies on the same agent, I’m going to be confused, and likely query you in a manner which annoys you. If you have listings at AgentQuery, LitMatch, and PublishersMarketPlace, they should all match.
Along those same lines, publishing is a very old, established industry. Why are submissions policies not standardized? What other industry works like that? Standardize submission requirements. Variations between one agent/agency and another are usually minor, but damn–I’ve seen some weird ones. If I’d try to come up with a standardized policy based on the most frequent requirements of most of the agencies I’ve researched so far, I’d come up with query, 1-3 page synopsis, plus first chapter. Who says an agent has to read all that if they hate the query? No one. Times New Roman in 12 pt font, one-inch margins all the way around, left justified text. They could standardize submission requirements.
Speaking of standardizing, what about the manner in which the query shows up in your email boxes? One agent (and for the life of me, I can’t remember who, though I wouldn’t name them if I did–it’s a good agent) requires the writer’s name and email address match. I know of no one who has their name as their email address except teachers at the local college. It’s easy–if you have an email in your spam folder with a subject line that starts out ‘QUERY,’ it’s not spam. Move it to your inbox. Set filters to automatically put email with subject lines beginning ‘QUERY’ to your inbox. Easy-peasy. Standardize that. How about subject lines like "QUERY-TITLE-GENRE" ? "QUERY-Billy’s Pet Unicorn-Middle Grade Fantasy," or "QUERY-Felicia and the Werewolf-YA Paranormal," or "QUERY-The Night George Washington Rode into the Everglades-Historical Fiction" ?
If you don’t have hundreds of people each week sending you queries with subject lines constructed a hundred different ways, it makes it infinitely easier to pick all the non-spam out of your spam folders. Just a thought.
And they keep saying how busy they all are. Um, sorry. Thanx to temp agencies, I’ve worked a lot of different jobs, and have also worked a lot of desk jobs, staring into a computer for hours. I’ll take the desk jobs. I worked at a steel factory for $5.10 an hour, wherein I lifted a ton of steel beams every hour onto pallets–hot beams directly off the paint line. I also worked in a bag factory where I operated a machine that was about twice as long as your office is wide. No dieting, no changing the way I ate, and I lost 6 lbs the first week I worked there. Yeah, I’ll take the desk job. If you can blog and tweet, you can auto-respond to let writers know their queries have landed in your inbox.
As to my desk job, I worked several years in copy/production/traffic in radio broadcasting. I had to write ad copy all day, in addition to entering contracts into the computer and plotting spots on all daily logs for 3 and finally 5 radio stations every day.
I’m not saying agents don’t work or that they’re not busy–but they say it like we’re not. We have full-time day jobs in addition to families, and have to work our writing, querying, and endless waiting around all of that. Um, hello?
There are a lot of things about publishing as an industry that I don’t like. Agents aren’t one of them, but that doesn’t mean we can’t tweak the system a tad, or that agents we’re querying can’t show a little consideration and respect.
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