HIGH CHOLESTEROL, KNOWN AS HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA, IS A MAJOR RISK FACTOR FOR CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE. IN THE UNITED STATES, MORE THAN 105 MILLION PEOPLE (THAT’S ALMOST 50% OF ADULTS OVER AGE 20) SUFFER FROM ELEVATED CHOLESTEROL.
Individuals who are sedentary, overweight or obese, consume a diet high in saturated fat, have a family history of high cholesterol and/or are middle-aged or older are at particularly high risk of hypercholesterolemia and subsequent cardiovascular complications. The good news is that cholesterol levels can be improved with a little TLC; that is, therapeutic lifestyle changes.
Here’s everything you need to know about Managing Cholesterol with Exercise.
Source: American Council on Exercise (ACE).
Author
Laila Zemrani
Bio
Laila is the Co-founder and CEO of Fitnescity.
She is an early adopter and advocate of personal health tracking. Her work on the topic has appeared in numerous media outlets and venues such as Stanford Medicine X, MIT, NYU, Harvard, Forbes, the United Nations, Future Healthcare Week and HyperWellbeing. She was named one of the top 18 female leaders in the NYC Tech Scene, a Legatum fellow in Entrepreneurial Leadership and a MasterCard Foundation fellow at MIT. Prior to Fitnescity, she was a founding employee at Dataxis, a global data analysis firm. Laila has an MBA from MIT Sloan. As an undergraduate, she studied engineering and management at Télécom ParisTech.