What can you do?
- Get your cholesterol checked. Talk with your doctor about when and why screening is important.
- Eat a healthy diet. Avoid saturated fats and trans fats, which tend to raise cholesterol levels. Other types of fats, such as polyunsaturated fats, can actually lower blood cholesterol levels. Eating fiber also can help lower cholesterol.
- Exercise regularly. Physical activity can help lower cholesterol. The Surgeon General recommends that adults engage in moderate-intensity exercise for 2 hours and 30 minutes every week.
- Maintain a healthy weight. Being overweight or obese can raise your cholesterol levels. Losing weight can help lower your cholesterol.
- Don't smoke. If you smoke, quit as soon as possible.
High blood pressure management is a key strategy of the Million Hearts
Initiative, an effort to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes by
2017. Colorado participates in this initiative and you can too. Be one in
a million - make your commitment and pledge
today.
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