Cholesterol fact
June 7, 2010 by admin
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Everybody thinks that cholesterol is a bad thing inside our body. This is general perception that most people have. But, they don’t really know the true fact of cholesterol. If it is purely a bad thing, then why our liver can produce cholesterol for our body?
In fact, cholesterol is essential to our body. In order to know what cholesterol functions, let us find out what is cholesterol first.
What is cholesterol?
Cholesterol is waxy substance that is attached to the body fats in our blood stream. It also appears in all the cells of body because it is used to form cells and hormones. Cholesterol comes from either created by our liver or from the foods that we eat into our stomach.
However, the cholesterol level in our body is out of control, either too high or too low in our blood stream, it can be very risky to us. This is because it may cause heart disease like heart attack or a stroke. Although cholesterol is prevalent in the blood stream, it cannot dissipate in the blood.
There are 2 types of cholesterol. The first type is low density lipoprotein – LDL cholesterol. Another is called high density lipoprotein – HDL cholesterol. LDL cholesterol is widely considered as bad cholesterol and HDL cholesterol is good cholesterol.
Excess of LDL cholesterol will build up walls inside artery and cause the artery narrower. Over the time, the blood stream will be come slower and clogged. The circulation of blood will become difficult. This will cause stress and damage to the heart as less oxygen is provided to our heart. Then, sometimes, people will feel chest pain is due to this situation.
Anyone who has higher levels of LDL will have higher risk of heart disease. People think of genetic problem. But actually most of the cases are due to bad life style and eating habit.
So, it is better to always keep away from unhealthy life style.
