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High Cholesterol affects roughly 42 million Americans and an additional 63 million have borderline high cholesterol. Why is it that 50% of the population suffers from this potentially fatal problem? Some doctors believe that people simply aren’t educated about good fats and bad fats, nor do they see a doctor to be specifically screened for cholesterol trouble.

The bad cholesterol you’ve probably heard so much about is called Low Density Lipoprotein. The good type goes bad when it stops transporting and oxidizes from exposure to free radicals, leading to conditions like atherosclerosis. If you have 160mg or more of LDL per day, then you have a high level of harmful cholesterol. By contrast, high density Lipoprotein (or HDL) is known as “good cholesterol.” It helps one-fourth to one-third of blood cholesterol to be carried from the arteries to the liver by HDL. Doctors recommend that you have more than 40mg of HDL to lower your risk of heart disease.

Calories are converted to triglycerides before your tissues can use them as energy. However, like cholesterol, your triglyceride levels can be excessive if you are overweight, a smoker, are inactive or consume a lot of alcohol. Usually people with high levels of triglycerides have high LDL and low HDL levels. You have high triglycerides if your levels are more than 200mg.

Did you know that some foods can actually lower your cholesterol? Foods high in fiber, like cereals, are one of those magical foods. Vegetables, whole grains, omega-3 fat found in walnuts and fish oil, monosaturated fat found in olive oil and 2 grams of sterol per day, which is found in supplements like Cholest-Off, will help you move that bad cholesterol out of your body as quickly as it came in.

By Health Editor