The Virtues of HDL's

Medicine spends a lot of time and effort discussing bad cholesterol and the need to lower LDL (low density lipo-proteins) levels. While high levels of LDL's are not good for your health, high levels of HDL's (high density lipo-proteins) are good for your health. HDL's take away the excess fat in the blood. This prevents the fat from clogging the arteries and building up on the walls of blood vessels. In addition to trying to lower LDL's, one should be trying to raise HDL's. Healthy fats found in olive oil, fish oil, nuts, fruits and vegetables raise HDL levels. Exercise, performed on a regular basis, provides a temporary boost to HDL levels. The temporary boost is why exercise needs to be done on a regular basis, thus sustaining higher levels. Also, cardio-vascular, aerobic exercise has been shown to boost HDL's 20 %, plus, burn an extra 800 calories per week. (Walking 3 miles a day, 3 x per week burns 900 calories!) Avoiding trans-fats (hydrogenated oils) not only lowers the bad cholesterol, but also prevents HDL levels form being lowered.

Thought for the Week: "The maintenance of health should take precedence over the treatment of disease." ----Robert Aldrich, MD

Chiropractic Tip of the Week: "Life heals. If you cut a piece of steak, put iodine and a bandage on it and give it a shot of penicillin, it still will not heal. Therefore those things have nothing to do with the healing of the body. A living body heals itself, a steak does not."----Reggie Gold, D.C.

Dr. J: The point is that there is an intelligence in the living body that is responsible for "life", "function" and "health." This intelligence has to communicate through the body for the body to respond to its direction. The "life" communication flows from the brain, down the spinal cord, out the nerves to the rest of the body. Life flows from above, down and inside out. Not from the outside in.