How to Increase Your Good HDL Cholesterol

Knowing how to increase your good HDL cholesterol will help you to stay healthy and live longer. Increase your good HDL cholesterol by eating right and exercising everyday. Have balanced cholesterol means having high good HDL cholesterol and low bad LDL cholesterol and triglycerides.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Eat Almonds
   
   Eat raw almonds everyday. A handful of about 28 almonds per day is very healthy. Almonds are filled with good fat that is very beneficial to your body. Avoid sodium by eating the almonds raw instead of the smoked and salted variety. Almonds are a super food.
   
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2. Eat Olive Oil
   
   Eat fresh extra virgin olive oil everyday. Extra virgin is the first gently pressing of the olives. It is the best tasting and lightest olive oil. Olive oil is a super food.
   
   Olive oil is known to increase good hdl cholesterol.

3. Eat Avocados
   
   Eat avocados everyday for good health. Avocados are a super food. They are packed with nutrition. If you want to raise your good cholesterol eat avocados everyday.

4. Eat Fish
   
   Eat fish, especially wild caught salmon, at least three times per week. Fish is loaded with Omega 3 essential oils and tastes great. Farmed raised salmon does not have the amount of Omega 3 oils that wild caught has.

5. Eat Healthy
   
   Eat healthy everyday. Eat foods such as garlic, onions and other vegetables. Eat plenty of fruit, whole grains and low saturated fat meats.
   
   Eliminate trans fats, partially hydrogenated oils and other poor nutrition foods out of your diet. Not only do these foods cause harm but they also fill you up so that you do not consume healthy foods. Do not eat donuts, drink soda or smoke cigarettes if you would like to raise your good HDL cholesterol.
   
   Knowing how to increase good HDL cholesterol will help you extend your life.

6. Exercise
   
   Exercise everyday if you need to raise your good HDL cholesterol. Exercise is one of the main components that helps raise good cholesterol levels. Walking is one of the best forms of exercise that you can do easily each day. Start walking if even for ten minutes. Increase the amount that you walk until you are walking up to sixty minutes per day.
   
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Resources

• The Great Cholesterol Lie