Adopting a healthy lifestyle is the best thing you can do to prevent high cholesterol and heart disease problems. This means making sure that you eat the healthy and nutritious foods, and do exercise on a regular basis. Also stay away from smoking and excessive drinking of alcohol.
Healthy lifestyle and diet will almost guarantee a lower cholesterol, but if this does not work, then this is when medication is needed. Even if your doctor does prescribe a medication, you still have to follow your healthy lifestyle, be more physically active, stop cigarette smoking if you smoke and control other various risk factors, such as high blood pressure and diabetes for instance.
There are some risk factors which you are simply unable to control, such as your age and your family history, but by doing everything that you can, you will greatly reduce your risk of having high cholesterol and heart disease.
