Lower Cholesterol With A Pen
It looks like you can write your way to lower cholesterol.
In Affectionate Writing Can Reduce Cholesterol, the more personal, affectionate, and direct your writing is (as opposed to writing about some third party), the faster your cholesterol levels will drop.
I'm reminded of a lolo (grandfather) and lola (grandmother). They both exercise and also engage in daily brisk walking. Lola eats sensibly, while lolo loads himself with high-sugar and high-fat foods.
Surprisingly, lola's cholesterol levels are higher than those of lolo.
What's the secret? Lolo enjoys solving crossword puzzles with a ballpen.
I wonder if email writing helps lower your LDLs. What about blogging? Hmmm. Can Vox be one way of beating coronary disease? (Then again, it's not really high cholesterol that leads to heart attacks, right?)
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A combination of high fats and cholesterols lead to their accumulation in the coronary arteries (causing narrowing in the "pipes" that supply your heart). When those narrowed portions have a clot of blood or chunk of fat that gets stuck in them, or when the cholesterols and fats have built up so much no blood can get through the "pipes" -- you have a heart attack.
That study mentioned looks kind of sketchy (especially since they didn't link to it), but it sounds like a good idea, right? We need to spend more time out and about to save our coronaries instead of writing them. :(