When many people discuss the term cholesterol, they assume that this is a bad thing that is somehow caused by external circumstances. If you could eliminate those circumstances, your body would have no more cholesterol and you would be fine.
Technically this is not correct. In fact, cholesterol is completely normal. Every human body contains cholesterol. It is a substance manufactured by the liver. Its function is involved with the movement of fatty material from the liver to other organs and parts of the body, and back.
The main types of cholesterol are: LDL, or Low Density Lipoproteins, and HDL, or High Density Lipoproteins. HDL is often called the “good guy”. Its job is to carry fatty material from the rest of the body back to the liver, where it has to be dealt with, either by breaking it down, or discarding it. The “bad guy” is LDL. This type of cholesterol has the function of distributing fats from the liver to areas in the body where it is needed (under normal circumstances).
When this system starts to function improperly, either because of it not being able to deliver enough fat to the rest of the body, or not being able to get excess fat back to the liver, to be recycled or excreted, the result is a cholesterol imbalance. This in turn leads to build-up in your arteries, heart disease etc.
One of the major causes of dangerous cholesterol levels is simply eating too much, specifically eating too much fatty food. In our time we don’t normally get the same amount of exercise as our forefathers, therefore the body has now other way to copy with all this fat than to store it somewhere. This causes a buildup of LDL cholesterol in the bloodstream, which eventually causes something called plaque. This is similar to the plaque on teeth, but not the same. It can become brittle, break off and clog your arteries.
Another major cause of cholesterol is smoke inhalation – either by smoking yourself, or being subjected to passive smoking. Most people are probably unaware that cigarettes contain poison. The name of that poison is acrolein, and it can also be found in pesticides and chemical weapons! The reason why this causes the breakdown of our cholesterol system is that it interferes with the functioning of both bad and good cholesterol. Good cholesterol loses its ability to carry fatty stuff back to the liver to be destructed; bad cholesterol is attacked so badly that its cellular structure is altered, causing it to malfunction completely.
Something that not a lot of us know either, is the role of genetic factors in all of this. For a reason we don’t quite understand yet, about 70% of people suffer from a genetic disorder causing the production of good and bad cholesterol to become out of balance. Too much bad cholesterol – too little good cholesterol. And the system basically collapses.
Acting alone, a single one of the factors mentioned above might not be deadly. When they work in conjunction however, they form a lethal mix that results in the death of more people in America than anything else. Cholesterol is also one of the major causes of death world wide.
Would you like to learn more about foods that lower cholesterol? Read other article at cholesterol diet


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