Understanding Cholesterol Good or bad cholesterol, so many “saturated” fats and fatty acids and triglycerides yikes. Many of us don’t want all the science behind bringing down our fat impact cholesterol levels. We just want to do it because it’s good for us. But fat metabolism is pretty fundamental: high cholesterol levels in the blood are a risk factor for heart disease because it can clog arteries and be fertile soil for a stroke or a heart attack, period. The American obsession with eliminating cholesterol has yielded results: a twenty percent reduction in the amount we consume as a nation today, compared to levels in the 1970s will this alone eliminate risks for heart attacks? Of course not, because other types of fat can affect cholesterol levels and they, like cholesterol itself, require some dietary monitoring. In short, the most culpable party is saturated fat. A Brief Description of Cholesterol Cholesterol is known as a lipid. You can find it throughout the body’...
Good or bad cholesterol, Some facts about cholesterol, cholesterol levels in the body
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