Medicine and Health related Information

Most people finds it difficult to know if they are overweighed and are mostly confused whether they should lose weight or not. Here is a simple solution, try to hold the skin on your waist between your thumb and index finger, if its more than an inch, then one must lose fat.

 
It’s not just fatty foods that contribute to bad cholesterol, stress can increase your cholesterol too. Stress leads to excessive secretion of adrenaline, thyroid and kidney hormones, which in turn leads to cholesterol, thickening of arteries and heart related diseases.
Many medicines too increase cholesterol level through there side effects. Beta blockers, diuretics, some contraceptives, anabolic steroids and corticosteroids (used in treatment of asthma, rheumatic disease) are known to increase triglycerides or bad cholesterol. These drugs should be strictly taken under doctor’s vision.