To keep your risk for various lifestyle disease like diabetes, hypertension, cholesterol problems and obesity as low as possible its important to ‘aggressively’ control your risk factors.

‘Borderline’ and ‘average’ values tend to slowly but surely increase risk over time so it is better to keep the following health parameters under control as mentioned below:

Blood pressure : 120/80 mmHg

Total Cholesterol : Below 200 mg/dl
Triglycerides : Below 150 mg/dl
LDL (Bad cholesterol) : Below 100 mg/dl
HDL (Good cholesterol) : Above 40 mg/dl

Blood sugar : Fasting value to be 70-110 mg/dl : Post lunch to be 70-140 mg/dl

Weight : Body mass index below 25 kg/m2

Waist : Less than 40 inches for men and 35 for women