QUIZ: How Healthy Is Your Heart?
Did you know that lowering your cholesterol isn’t all about cutting foods out of your diet? In fact, eating more of certain foods may help lower your cholesterol. Whole grain oat cereal is one of those foods, containing fiber that acts like a cholesterol “sponge” to help the body get rid of it naturally.*
Keeping your cholesterol in check may help prevent heart disease, and it’s remarkably simple to do if you know the facts about a heart-healthy lifestyle, what foods to eat and to limit, and how often you should get yourself screened for high cholesterol.
So take this quiz to find out if your heart-health knowledge is up to snuff, and learn what you can do to help lower your cholesterol.
The clock will start as soon as you submit your first answer.
*3 grams of soluble fiber daily from whole grain oat foods, in a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol, may reduce the risk of heart disease.
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This comment has not yet been postedThe "lipid theory of heart disease" has somehow entered the land of known fact over the last 40 years, on the wings of some very shaky science. This is in no small part due to the incredible business opportunity presented to the pharmaceutical industry in treating the widespread disease known as 'high cholesterol". There was actually talk at one point of putting statins in public water supplies.
Fortunately science moves on, and in this case it's aided by the last block-buster statin (Liptor) going off-patent last year. Big pharma no longer has a dog in this fight.
Maybe now we'll find out what really causes heart disease (CAD).