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With obesity in the U.K rising more and more people are being diagnosed with high cholesterol, brought on by an over consumption of fatty and sugary foods. Once diagnosed many suffers have to maintain a healthy diet and exercise to control their cholesterol. Here is some advice on how to control your cholesterol level.

Take and Make Note of What You Eat

If possible try to keep some sort of food diary, this doesn’t have to be permanently, but using one for a month or two when you first begin to control your cholesterol can help as you will be able to pinpoint trouble areas in your diet.

Find and Use Replacements for High Cholesterol Ingredients and Meals

When you are eating meals and snacks at home you have the advantage of controlling exactly what you eat and what ingredients you put into your body. A great way to lower cholesterol is to modify usual recipes to a low-fat, low-cholesterol version, which can be done with most meals.

Avoid Fad Diets

Often Cholesterol is linked weight. The key to losing weight and maintaining a low cholesterol is to take your doctors advice and stick to a safe, healthy diet rather then to fad diet, as this can that damage your health. Just simply follow your doctors advised diet and combine with an exercise routine and you will start to see results.

Set Realistic Fitness Goals

Instead of over doing it and setting off hoping to achieve too much at once, choose to focus on regularly modest amount of exercise for example try walking, go swimming, play a sport with a friend. It doesn’t have to be much in order to see results. 

Running on a treadmill is one of the most beneficial workouts we can do on a regular basis.

Running uses nearly every muscle in the body, and also helps to improve overall cardiovascular health, as well as improving balance and stamina.

Although running is highly beneficial some people struggle to run due to muscle or joint issues, an advanced weight problem, or an injury that precludes the ability to engage in high-strain, high-impact activities.

If you find it difficult to run then we recommend walking on a treadmill rather than running.

Walking provides many of the same benefits as running, but with far less physical stress on the body; and as with running you have to be sensible when first starting a walking routine.

If you walk at a faster pace you will burn calories at a faster rate.
Your size, stride and speed will affect how many calories your burn in 10,000 steps. For an 11 stone woman walking at a fairly brisk pace of 3.5 miles an hour, it would take around 90 minutes and burn more than 400 calories.

Walking will make a huge impact on the way you both look and feel. Walking will also increase your muscle tone, boost metabolism, ease stress, raise energy levels and improve sleep and help you to lose weight. 

Leslie Burrows from Ilkeston, Derbyshire celebrates his 100^th birthday today, and has credited his long and healthy life to a lifetime of exercise.

Mr Burrows said, “Physical exercise is something that I do every morning. It is the first thing that I always used to do and have carried on doing so.”

Lesile ensures that he exercises everyday he walks around the grounds of the retirement home where he lives, and regularly workouts out his arms, often swinging them above his head to boost his circulation and flexibility.

Mr Burrows was a keen walker who loved walking and used to ramble all around Derbyshire in spots such as Cossall and Awsworth in Nottinghamshire.

As well as being an avid walker, Leslie was also a keen cycler, cycling three miles a day to his job.

As Leslie has proven a regular routine of exercise and workouts for the elderly can improves conditioning and helps prevent chronic diseases. Results have shown that physical exercise benefits seniors more than any other age group.

These are Gymworld’s exercise tips for seniors:

• Leg and Arm Extension - As with Leslie working out your arms and legs, will help to strengthen your muscles, which can help to prevent joints being worn away.

• Cross-trainer - Using a cross trainer to exercise is becoming increasingly popular with seniors. Cross trainers enable the user to monitor their heart rate whilst training. Exercising on a cross trainer has a minimal negative impact on joints.

• Exercising with Weights - Lift light weights three times a week to help strengthen all key muscle groups.  Take a rest day between sessions to aid recovery and avoid overworking the muscles.

• Swimming - A great way for seniors to stay fit and healthy, and the great thing is that isn't high impact on joints.

• Walking - Walking is a great form of exercise, it allows you to go at your own pace and isn’t too strenuous. Try to walk slightly faster than normal to increase the heart rate and boost cardiovascular conditioning.