Any chemical substance introduced into the body often can involve gentle adverse effects, sometimes frightening, from small digestive disorders until more severe incidents. You can read carefully the note related to each medicine and you will be surprised by the side effects of each medicine.



A real story: Mr X is on the point of celebrating Christmas in his family. This man with a certain corpulence has been treated for one month by an anti-cholesterol medicine which will allow him (he was thinking) to pass by this special diet against the cholesterol. In this forenoon of Xmas eve, Mr X is worried: for a few days its wild appetite has made place with an unexplained anorexia and especially it discovers with stupor that its eyes are yellow. Called immediately, his family doctor quickly made diagnose an hepatitis, confirmed the same day by a blood test. This ignition of the liver will prove to be due to the medicine against cholesterol. Sad end of Christmas for Mr X who spent several weeks to recovered from the incident but which cures fortunately without sequel. For this day, this bright gent has pursued in a good way the diet developed by his doctor, diet which reduces his bad cholesterol (LDL cholesterol), triglycerides and kilos is surplus and he never senses so fine!

A lesson to be retained: Follow your diet which will become after a few weeks a new manner of feeding you as far from being sad and monotonous. You will fell yourselves much more healthy, much more alarm and you will not want any more to proceed in this bad way.

A capital precision: Of course, there is no question of underestimating the peremptory necessity here to use anti-cholesterol medicine when the results obtained by the diet are not sufficient. But a medicinal prescription will be made only after having been ensured that the food rules will have been perfectly complied.

The sport, an essential complement with your diet: Researches demonstrates that the sport performed periodically creates a rise in the good cholesterol( for remind, the HDL cholesterol) and in an increasing degree the sport occupation is more the advantage is considerable. It is not however in our intentions to want to transform you into a marathon runner or high level triathlon runner!

It is enough for you to choose a physical activity which you like and which you practice in an assiduous way. Quotidian walk is entirely made suitable. You can also register you with a club of swimming, pedestrian excursions or bicycle. If your professional timing is too charged, change simply your bad habits: don't take your car for little mouvement in the city and please don't take the elevator for only 2-3 floors.

Let us announce in addition that a regular physical activity makes it possible to fight other cardiovascular factors. First advantage, ponderal excess: a real sportman is not obese. Secondly, nicotine consumption: sport and tobacco are antagonistic terms. Thirdly, high blood pressure (arterial hypertension): the physical activity is an essential key to fight this affection.

Watch out! The violent sports must absolutely be avoided starting from forty: tennis, squah, badminton or all type of hard sport ... especially in competition. So however you absolutely wish to continue at this age such activity, it is essential to consult your cardiologist who will propose to you a test effort, only valid way to check your aptitude for such exercises.