Managing your Cholesterol for Health

Series Summary

Looking for ways to help lower your cholesterol? Need tips to help you maintain your cholesterol levels? This free video series aims to provide you with the information you need to maintain a healthy lifestyle and keep you cholesterol levels low.

Dr. Susan Jewell provides you with a wealth of information about cholesterol, including where cholesterol comes from, how cholesterol plaque forms, high risk factors, and the importance of getting regular cholesterol screenings. You'll learn how eating a healthy diet rich in nuts and high fiber foods is essential to managing your cholesterol levels. You'll also learn about how fiber tables, vitamins and supplements can aid in keeping down your cholesterol levels. You'll learn about various butter substitutes, and how to cook with various types of healthier oils. Eating right and getting regular exercise, as you already know, is the best medicine for lowering cholesterol. Watch these free videos, and start living a healthier lifestyle today.

Video Transcript

"Hello! My name is Dr. Susan Jewell and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to talk to you about cholesterol. In particular, about ways to lower cholesterol. Before I start, let me introduce myself. I'm a clinical research physician in the area of oncology, which is cancer, and also a stem cell scientist is AIDS and HIV. I've worked at the National Cancer Institute and also at UCLA school of medicine. In this series of clips, we're going to address several topics about cholesterol. First of all, we're going to look at the definition of cholesterol. This total cholesterol, which is made up of 3 different types of cholesterol, groups LDL, HDL, and Triglycerides. We'll talk about each of the categories. Then we're going to talk about plaques are formed from these deposits and some of the complications and some of the diseases that you can get from having high cholesterol in your diet like heart disease or stroke, and so on and so forth. We're going to look at risk factors and then we'll discuss in detail about certain ways of changing a lifestyle, a diet, and so on about how you can lower the intake of cholesterol."