Cholesterol
For Health Forever.
Most of us
are focused on fat. It is all that we hear about these days. Since the
time we
are kids we are told that fat is bad for us.
Everything we are
looking for
should be fat-free.
Your bread
is bromate-free; your yoghurt is fat-free; your cooking oil is
cholesterol-free; your canned soup is preservative-free; and the list
goes on
and on. Now you are beginning to wonder about the next -free commodity
that you
would encounter.
In today’s
world, almost everything is free… not that everything has no
price.
It just seems that we have
reached the era
where we become more aware of our health conditions. Thus, it
seems to be the era of everything that
is -free. Try scanning every available
product in your local grocery and you will see what I mean.
This is not
exactly bad.
In
fact, health experts encourage us to be
more sensitive about the foods we eat and the nutrients that we get
from
them. However,
not
everything that is –free is
healthy. Our
bodies need certain
substances to be able to function well.
There are
two types of cholesterol; these are what they termed as the
good and bad
cholesterol. Like
the literary split
personality of Jekyll and Hyde, it has a good side because it is needed
for
certain important body functions. But for many people, cholesterol also
has an
evil side. When present in excessive amounts, it can injure blood
vessels,
cause heart attacks, and stroke.
Low Density
Lipoprotein (LDL) is the "bad" cholesterol. This is the form in which
cholesterol is
carried into the blood and is the main cause of harmful fatty buildup
in
arteries. The higher the LDL cholesterol levels in the blood, the
greater the
heart disease risk.
On the
other hand, High
Density Lipoprotein (HDL) is
the “good”
cholesterol. This
"good" cholesterol carries blood cholesterol back to the liver, where
it can be eliminated. HDL helps prevent a cholesterol buildup in blood
vessels.
Low HDL levels increase heart disease risk.
Cholesterol
builds and repairs cells, it is used to
produce
sex hormones like estrogen and
testosterone, it is converted to bile acids to
help you
digest food and it is
found in large amounts in brain and nerve tissue.
So before
starting your cholesterol deprivation program, remember that
cholesterol is essential
for human life.
We
recommend Proactol:
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