Keep Your Cholesterol Low To Ward Off Heart Disease
It’s a fact that there are many genetic factors that can affect your likelihood of developing heart disease, and some people are more prone to developing it than others. However there are steps you can take that will lessen your chances of developing heart disease.
One of those steps is to keep your cholesterol levels low.
What is cholesterol?
Cholesterol is a waxy compound that is found in animal products. There are two different types of cholesterol - low density lipoproteins, or LDLs, and high density lipoproteins, or HDLs.
Low density lipoproteins are considered bad cholesterol, and you need to do your best to maintain low levels of this type of cholesterol. HDLs, by contrast, are known as ‘good’ cholesterol, and high levels of it are acceptable
What is cholesterol ?
Cholesterol in itself is a natural function of the human body. Every living being requires a certain amount of fat to exist. Like everything in nature, it only becomes a problem when there is an imbalance.
The processing of fat begins when it gets absorbed in the intestines. From there it heads to the liver. The fat requires a delivery system to the rest of the body to be used immediately but also to be stored in fat cells for future use.
In order for the fat to enter the delivery system, it is split into two different types of fat - cholesterol and triglycerides - while it is in the liver.
Once this transformation takes place, these two types of fat are packed into vehicles for carrying the fat to the fat cells throughout the body using the bloodstream. These vehicles are called lipoproteins.