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High cholesterol? Try lifestyle changes
Make switch to medication a last resortBy Jane E. BrodyThe New York TimesArticle Last Updated: 08/26/2007 03:13:02 PM MDT
Last December, a routine non-fasting blood test revealed that my total cholesterol level, which had long wavered between 190 and 205 milligrams per deciliter of blood serum, was now 222 and flagged as "high" by the laboratory's computer. A heart-healthy reading should be under 200. Americans tend to turn far too quickly to drugs to solve their health problems. ... Drugs should be the last resort, if there are reasonable measures people can take first to control a problem. And there are dozens of such measures that, individually or together, can help to lower high LDL cholesterol.
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