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More than half people in America has great chance from suffering high cholesterol, this is because they unhealthy life style and lack of exercise. High blood cholesterol level people often find in a big city, where the people cannot find their free time to do exercise of eating healthy food.

Our body needs HDL cholesterol to stay healthy and you have to always make sure that you have low amount of LDL cholesterol. Food that contains with saturated fat and oils like butter might have a great taste and everyone love is, but you have to wait until it blocked your blood circulation and causing heart attack in the future. There are some food choices that you have to cut from your diets, such as chicken skin, egg yolks and organ meats. Chicken skin has lots of fat and it is bad for your heart.

It is a best decision to visit your doctor and check the cholesterol level of your body, after finding out the result, then you should maintain the way you life. If you are busy worker and you dealing with stress on your working place, then you should taking a break from your daily job routine, this is because when you stress out, you tend to eat unhealthy food.

Cholesterol is the main sterol in the human body and precursor of all other steroids body. It is part of cell membranes, lipoproteins, bile acids and steroid hormones.

Cholesterol is an important constituent of gallstones, but its main pathological feature, is for the production of atherosclerosis of vital arteries, causing heart disease, stroke and peripheral vascular disease.

The origin of cholesterol in the body has two sources: external and produced by the body itself. Because the body can produce its own cholesterol, the possibility exists that people who do not consume cholesterol, high blood levels have to have a genetic-metabolic disorder that leads to this elevation. Read the rest of this entry »

At normal levels, cholesterol is not bad. On the contrary, is an essential raw material used by the body to build cell walls and produce hormones such as estrogen and testosterone.

The body produces its own supply of cholesterol in the liver and occurs naturally in all animal products (meat, eggs, milk and cheese). A problem arises only when the body can not use or remove excess supply and face high level of blood cholesterol.

Cholesterol is classified as a lipid. Travels through the bloodstream bound to proteins, forming complexes called lipoprotein. There are two main types of lipoprotein: low density lipoprotein (LDL), commonly known as “bad” cholesterol and high density lipoprotein (HDL) often called good cholesterol. Read the rest of this entry »

This is the famous low-density cholesterol or bad cholesterol as many people called it. The first thing to know about cholesterol is that it is necessary in our body, although obviously in the right proportions. The self-LDL-cholesterol is also well known as bad cholesterol and moves into the bloodstream.

The same is composed of lipoprotein and lipid-protein and its function is to transport mainly lipids. One of the negative things that one should always take care of your health-checks that are required is always the bad cholesterol stays in the artery walls and this is causing serious health problems.

Ultimately we can not say that cholesterol is bad in itself but it depends on the type of cholesterol and the level at which it is hosting in our body. Read the rest of this entry »