exercise is one of the best ways to lower your cholesterol. But how does it work? And what type of exercise is effective?
One way exercise can help lower cholesterol is by helping you lose or maintain weight. Being overweight tends to increase the amount of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) in your blood, the kind of lipoprotein that's been linked to heart disease.
Second, exercise increases the size of the protein particles that carry cholesterol through the blood. But now it appears that exercise increases the size of the protein particles that carry both good and bad lipoproteins.