Will the mangosteen help with high cholesterol?
We now live in a day and age when half of us will die from heart attacks or strokes. Thats a staggering number. But whats even more surprising is the fact that most deaths are preventable. Heart disease or arteriosclerosis is largely a lifestyle disease, much like cancer (due to smoking or other factors). One of the major causes of heart disease is high cholesterol. Cholesterol is a fatty substance in your body. You get cholesterol in two ways: one, by eating foods with cholesterol I it; and two, you body manufactures it. Unfortunately, while most of us get high cholesterol from not exercising enough and not eating properly, some of us are genetically predisposed to have high cholesterol. Those with this genetic makeup produce too much cholesterol, which may put them at an even greater risk than those with poor exercise and diet. There are two types of cholesterol-HDL (high-density lipoprotein, also called good) and LDL (low-density lipoprotein, also called bad). The trouble comes when
