Cholesterol Test Monitors
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	Diagnostic System In addition to monitoring key health indicators of total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, triglycerides and others such as glucose and ketones, This also monitors Lipid Panel.
	Diagnostic System With this  instrument and the Test Strips, you now have a health management system in your hands. It is a hand-held medical diagnostics system to monitor key health indicators including total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, triglycerides and others.
	Cholesterol Test Testing your cholesterol level is so easy and accurate with Instant Cholesterol kit. The test is simple and easy to use, requiring only a few drops of blood obtained from a finger stick sample, and results are available in ONLY 15 minutes.
	Cholesterol Monitor Accurately monitor your total cholesterol levels in the privacy and convenience of your home with the  Cholesterol Monitor. This easy-to-use device incorporates smart card technology, which allows you to store and average results.

THE NEED TO KNOW YOUR CHOLESTEROL LEVEL

The importance to good health of keeping your cholesterol level under control can't be overemphasized. Atherosclerosis and its complications, such as heart attacks and strokes, are the major causes of death in the United States and have reached epidemic proportions throughout the Western World. Such degeneration is responsible for 43% of all deaths in the U.S. The first step in the prevention and treatment of such diseases is the reduction of blood cholesterol levels.

The National Cholesterol Education Program is often quoted as the source for guidelines on safe cholesterol levels. It was established in 1995 by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, an organization that sways in political winds like many others. Their recommendations are far too high and influenced by vested interests. They, together with the National Research Council, the American Heart Association, and the National Institutes of Health, state that a diet with under 30% of calories from fat is healthful. Yet, this level has been scientifically shown to worsen heart disease. Americans consume 135 pounds of fat per year, far too much. You must get less than 10% of your calories from fat if you are to prevent disease. You will get all the fat you need from a plant-based diet of natural foods. Even apples have fat! Where do cows and horses get the fat they need? From grass! What do you think the dairy industry, the meat industry, and the restaurant industry, to name a few, have to say about the effort to get us to eat less fat? So, next to the flawed NCEP recommendations, you will find our own:

The only thing "desirable" about a level of 200 is that it is more desirable than something higher. Fully 35% of heart attacks occur in people with total cholesterol levels of 150-200 mg/dl. Therefore, a target level of only 200 mg/dl guarantees that millions of people will perish from arterial disease. People who live in more primitive societies and eat a mainly vegetarian diet have cholesterol levels around 100-150. They are also free from arterial disease. Although this remains the leading killer in our society, it is still unknown to 4 out of 5 people world-wide. It is strictly an illness of Western civilization and other cultures that have adopted the affluent Western lifestyle. For many people, attaining this safe level will mean changing to a vegan diet, meaning eating no animal products, not even dairy products.

People often comment that humans are omnivorous, meaning we eat just about anything in the animal and vegetable kingdoms. This is true, but that doesn't mean that such a diet is healthful. The human body has evolved on a plant-based diet. We get all the nutrients we need from such a diet. To the extent we stray from that diet, our health suffers. We do not have the claws, fangs, speed, short digestive system or other attributes of a predatory animal. As our ancestors left the tropical forests and moved to colder climates, they were forced to turn to the animal kingdom to survive. Our bodies have learned to digest these animal products, but this is still an unnatural and harmful lifestyle. Cholesterol is only found in food from the animal kingdom.

The idea of a large segment of the population changing to a vegan diet strikes fear into the hearts of those whose goal in life is maximum profits from the sale of harmful products. Part of their propaganda is to claim that diet is only one of numerous "risk factors" that can lead to arterial disease, in an attempt to shift the focus to things other than diet. Some of these factors are said to be family history, smoking, obesity, hypertension, and lack of exercise. Yet, these influences are of little or no importance unless the TRUE risk factor is present...

...a total cholesterol level above 150 mg/dl.

The cholesterol problem is difficult to fully understand. Cholesterol is needed as a structural element in all cell membranes, and is a building block for some hormones and other essential body functions. Each person's body manufactures different amounts of cholesterol, usually between 500 and 1000 mg a day, but for some as little as 150 mg per day. This is part of a highly complex process, not yet fully understood, which depends on inherited tendencies, many other factors in body functions, and dietary cholesterol intake. There is no evidence that the body needs any dietary cholesterol.

Some people consume huge amounts of dietary cholesterol and are able to eliminate most of it. Others have a very low intake and very high blood levels. They are not even efficient at eliminating the extra, unneeded amount their own body produces, let alone dietary cholesterol. The problem occurs simply because there is too much and the body does not eliminate it efficiently.

TEST FREQUENCY

If you are just embarking on a low fat diet, you may want to test yourself every few weeks to monitor how your cholesterol level is decreasing. When you feel you have succeeded in reaching a safe level, testing every few months might be adequate. It is also of interest to test yourself the day after you have "broken the rules" and had a dinner of fatty foods. You may be surprised at how the test results shoot up after just that one meal. If this happens, you are obviously one of those people who are highly sensitive to dietary cholesterol. Our digestive system is adapted to a vegetarian diet which contains no cholesterol. Our liver is designed to PRODUCE the cholesterol our bodies need. It is not designed like the liver of a carnivorous animal, to efficiently REMOVE the excess cholesterol resulting from an animal-based diet. This test will help you determine just how efficient your own body is in this regard.