How to keep your cholesterol in check for National Heart Month
Jane Atkinson
Updated: 7 Feb 2021, 12:46
FEBRUARY is National Heart Month. A good way to protect it is by keeping check on your blood fat – or cholesterol.
Good cholesterol helps us make vitamin D from sunlight. The bad stuff collects in blood vessels and raises chances of heart attack or stroke. Today we look at ways to keep it in check.
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OatWell contains beta-glucan which helps to reduce blood cholesterol by ten per cent within two to three weeks
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OatWell contains beta-glucan, the soluble dietary fibre found in the oat kernel, which has an effect in lowering LDL (low-density lipoprotein) cholesterol.