Cause of high blood cholesterol

Diet unreasonable, physical inactivity, overweight ... is the subjective causes the most common cause you to fall into high cholesterol

The objective reasons
This causes beyond your control. Although you can not do anything to change them, it is important that you should know whether you fall into any risk or not.

- Age: The risk of high cholesterol increases with age. Men over 45 and women over age 55 have a higher risk than younger people.
- Gender: Generally, men prone to cholesterol than women.
- Family history: Your risk is higher if a family member has a history of high cholesterol or encounter issues such as heart disease, especially at a young age (under 55).
- Race: Somewhat related to family history, race also at risk for high cholesterol by you. In the US, African Americans, are more likely to have high cholesterol than whites.
Subjective reasons
These are factors that you can control include factors related to your lifestyle. You should understand them in order to control and improve cholesterol levels, as well as enhance the overall health of the body.
- Diet: Body of us to generate about 80% cholesterol, 20% are from the foods you eat.
If your diet consists mostly of food rich in cholesterol group (saturated fat, transfat) and less food groups beneficial for cardiovascular health (healthy fats, whole grains, fish, fruit and vegetables), then you can easily have high cholesterol.
- Campaign Level: Non-operating with increased risk of cholesterol in the blood. Exercise regularly naturally reduce LDL cholesterol (bad) in your blood, while increasing levels of HDL cholesterol (good).
- Weight: Being overweight increases your blood cholesterol levels because your body store extra calories. If you lose 10% of body weight (in case you are overweight), it may improve cholesterol levels.
- Smoking: Do you know that smoking is the leading cause of heart disease, due to its effects on arteries, heart, blood pressure, and cholesterol levels?
Smokers vulnerable arteries, reduce HDL (good cholesterol). Quitting smoking can prevent a lot of illness to the body and improve the level of cholesterol in the blood of us.