Diet, exercise may boost 'good' cholesterol, study suggests
Worried about your cholesterol? New health research finds that the benefits of diet and exercise may go beyond weight loss and muscle tone improvement. Working out and eating right may actually help raise the production of “good” cholesterol.
Researchers at the Methodist Hospital of Houston came up with that surprising result while studying overweight people with type 2 diabetes who were participating in a clinical trial to see who increased physical activity and dieting affected their risk for cardiovascular disease.