How can I increase my good cholesterol, HDL, besides exercising, eating nuts, food cook with olive oil?
There are several other things you can do besides exercise and eating right to increase your HDL cholesterol. I’m not sure what your weight is, but if you are or near to being overweight, then losing weight will help to increase HDl cholesterol, so focussing on your fitbug weekly targets and using the nutrition section will help in achieving this. If you smoke, this will also lower HDL cholesterol, so giving up smoking will raise HDL levels if you do smoke. Your diet as you are aware will play a large part in increasing HDL levels. Try to eliminate Trans fats from your nutrition – these will often be foods containing hydrogenated vegetable oils on the nutrition label. Along with olive oil as you mentioned, canola oil and fats from peanut butter can also increase HDL. Other good foods that may increase HDL levels are oats, fruit, vegetables and fish. I hope this helps but if you have any further questions please get in touch.
