Healthy cholesterol levels are the difference between life and death. You must reduce your cholesterol level to healthy cholesterol levels. A high cholesterol level means you will have a heart attack.
Cholesterol fact, or cholesterol fiction?
The answer is both simple and complex! Simple, in that cholesterol levels themselves are not the problem. Complex, because high cholesterol levels signify a different problem (albeit an easy one to resolve).
What are healthy cholesterol levels?
Simply put, when your doctor measures your cholesterol level, he discovers how much of the varying types of cholesterol are circulating in your blood. As your doctor would have you believe, healthy cholesterol levels are low and unhealthy cholesterol levels are high - because that's what he's paid to tell you!
Regardless of the amount of cholesterol in your diet, your liver will make however high or low a cholesterol level your body needs, period. High cholesterol diet or low cholesterol diet, your cholesterol levels will be the same - why? Check out our cholesterol page for full details.
Put simply, it doesn't matter whether your diet is high in cholesterol or low in cholesterol - cholesterol is so important to your body that it can, and does make your cholesterol levels exactly what it needs them to be, so, for YOU, your cholesterol levels are healthy cholesterol levels - everything else considered.
Does it matter that you don't have healthy cholesterol levels"?
Of course it does, but not for the reasons you think. Un-Healthy cholesterol levels signify that you are deficient in Vitamin C, which is used to repair the continual damage to your arteries. If you can't fix them, the body needs to do something else to ensure un-healthy cholesterol levels show that your body is using its "reserve" repair material instead of its first choice, nothing more, nothing less.
As explained on our cholesterol page, the issue is not your high cholesterol levels, it is your dietary lack of vitamin C that causes high cholesterol levels, so stop worrying about your high cholesterol diet and cholesterol levels and start worrying about your vitamin C intake!
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Further reading
Know Your Fats : The Complete Primer for Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils and Cholesterol
by Mary G. Enig
The Cholesterol Myths : Exposing the Fallacy that Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease
by Uffe Ravnskov
Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill: The Complete Guide to Fats, Oils, Cholesterol and Human Health
by Udo Erasmus
Choosing the Right Fats: For Vibrant Health, Weight loss, Energy, Vitality (Natural Health Guide)
by Udo Erasmus
The Omega-3 Connection: The Groundbreaking Antidepression Diet and Brain Program
by Andrew L. M.D. Stoll
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Essential fatty acids
Otherwise known as "brain food", these fats can't be made in the body and must be in the diet. Unfortunately, in many cases they are almost totally missing, leading to numerous health (and psychiatric / social) problems.
Saturated animal fat
Red meat, dairy products, lard dripping and suet - a recipe for disease or the means to prevent it?
Vegetable oils
All oils are not created equal. Find out why some vegetable oils are better than others.
Hydrogenated oils (unsaturated or poly-unsaturated fats)
Margarine, shortening and other "low-cholesterol" fats. Find out why these have caused more damage to health than any other type of oils or fats.
Other Nutrient groups:
Antioxidants
Amino-acids
Carbohydrates
Essential fatty acids
Minerals
Plant extracts
Proteins
Trace elements
Vitamins
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