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Recognizing The Good Cholesterol in Foods
Recognizing the good cholesterol in foods – You go to the doctor and he tells you that your bad cholesterol. The first thing he asked: What did you have to eat? Most people do not even know what foods have cholesterol in them, let alone the bad and good. However, cholesterol is not so complicated. There are only a few things you need to know in order to understand and know how to work on the problem of cholesterol. All cholesterol is not bad. There is good cholesterol in the diet and there is bad cholesterol in the diet. Consumption of cholesterol is transported through the bloodstream by lipoproteins because they cannot dissolve it. Lipoproteins role in the transport process is where we get the labels of good and bad cholesterol.
Low-density lipoproteins (LDL) take and carry cholesterol throughout the body. When the body has too much cholesterol, it just keeps circulating and eventually enters the blood vessels. Over time, it clogs the arteries and blocking blood flow. Remember, cholesterol cannot dissolve itself. So, he just continues to build. This construct is called plaque. Building the LDL cholesterol is often the cause of coronary artery disease. That is why called as bad cholesterol. Read the rest of this entry »