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About Ken: Ken is a successful writer and online entrepreneur. He has developed http://www.lower-your-cholesterol.net as a portal for presenting articles, information, resources and links about lowering your cholesterol.
The Science Of Obesity: Fats & CholesterolFor years we heard that a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet would
keep us healthy and help us lose weight.
And many of us jumped on the bandwagon, eliminating fat and
high-cholesterol foods from our diets. Well, unfortunately, we
were doing it all wrong. Instead of eliminating fat completely,
we should have been eliminating the bad fats, the fats
associated with obesity and heart disease and eating the good
fats , the fats that actually help improve blood cholesterol
levels.
Before we examine the good fats and bad fats, let s talk about
cholesterol.
Cholesterol ..
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The body needs cholesterol for digesting dietary fats, making hormones, building cell walls, and other important processes. The bloodstream carries cholesterol in particles called lipoproteins that are like blood-borne cargo trucks delivering cholesterol to various body tissues to be used, stored or excreted. But too much of this circulating cholesterol can injure arteries, especially the coronary ones that supply the heart. This leads to accumulation of cholesterol-laden plaque in vessel linings, a condition called atherosclerosis.
When blood flow to the heart is impeded, the heart mus ..
