Cholesterol and Heart Disease – An Exercise in Sketchy Science
A lot of people are disturbed to find that they are diseased with high cholesterol illness, because they think that high cholesterin raises the chance of cardiac disease. This so called cholesterol phobia was the reason of sudden increased popularity of statins – preparations that are used to lower the cholesterol level.
However as it was later discovered, high cholesterol level doesn’t influence on heart in such degree. According to 10-years researches and monitoring in more than 20 different counties, the World Health Organization arrived at a decision that cholesterin cannot be the reason of serious heart problems. So fact is that there is no connection between cholesterol level and cardiovascular diseases at all!
In spite of the fact that cholesterol was proved to be mutually independent with heart troubles, there were many other inquiries that associated it with cardiology to some extent. Frequently you can hear how cholesterol is called as good cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, otherwise bad cholesterol, LDL cholesterol. All these designations are quite simplified.
LDL and HDL cholesterol consist of many different subgroups, which in their turn include particles of different sizes. In spite of the fact that LDL cholesterol is defined as “not good”, it is just the small part of LDL that seems to be dangerous for heart. However the big particle of the same cholesterol type is known as rather inoffensive. You should realize that aces LDL are not the only potential reason of disease. Both low-lying levels of LDL cholesterol and raised triglycerides can be dangerous for our hearts in different degrees.
Sadly, but our everyday meal conception complicates the situation, instead of attending to resolve it. For the long time American people were advised not to eat fat food and change it into grains and vegetables. However though this diet helps to abate cholesterin, the use of cereals and vegetable oil significantly influences on HDL, LDL and triglyceride levels that is not favorably for our organism.
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