There’s no doubt that a healthy heart is a happy heart. Keeping your heart healthy can be as easy as making easy lifestyle changes. This can be in relation to diet by eating healthy, getting enough exercise, ensuring you get enough sleep and keeping stress levels manageable. It is true that every one is at…
Busy lifestyles and erratic eating habits present the risk of lifestyle diseases such as high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes and weight gain, all of which can lead to heart disease. Here are some basic facts related to cholesterol that can help us make healthy living choices. But first, what is cholesterol? Cholesterol is a waxy…
Let me say straight off that regardless of whether one has diabetes or not, cholesterol has an important role to play in our health. Unhealthy cholesterol levels can increase the risk for type 2 diabetes and heart disease, which is why people with diabetes are advised to get their blood cholesterol and triglyceride levels monitored…