Most people in the United States today do not consume more than 12 to 18 grams of dietary fiber every day. To stay perfectly healthy and keep cholesterol levels low enough, you are going to have to double that figure, my friend and avoid a high cholesterol diet. So start looking for ways to substitute it in your diet.

If you don’t do a lot of vegetables already, you might want to start that now in order for lowering cholesterol strategies to work. I’m not just talking about a balanced diet; I am speaking of a balanced (and healthy) cholesterol level in your body. Without the vegetables, you just don’t get there.

Can you hear yourself breathing? Someone told me once that if I could, then I was overweight. However, I worked on his idea for a while, focusing on exercise and eating right to reduce cholesterol. These days, I have to listen real hard to know that I am breathing. That’s how I have kept my cholesterol level down since.

I love it when doctors tell me I have the heartbeat of an athlete. At that time, it does not matter what I am suffering from, or afraid that I could be suffering from. I have a sigh of relief. Whatever it is, it is not cholesterol related, and that is good for the moment.

You don’t know how much poison you swallow day in and out. Much of it won’t kill you right away, but accumulating over time, you could just drop dead one day and that would be the end of it. That’s the way it works with cholesterol; and that’s why you need to be lowering your level of the stuff right now.