Cholesterol can be highly dangerous. Not in small quantities and not even all cholesterol, because there are two kinds. One is healthy for you, because it helps mop up the other one which is damaging for you in substantial quantities. HDL cholesterol is termed the good cholesterol and LDL the bad cholesterol, although we need some LDL in order to regulate some of our bodily functions Too much LDL in our blood streams can cause clogging which in turn would lead to higher blood pressure, heart attacks and strokes...
Is all cholesterol really bad? The very word has received a bad rap from the media for years. Nearly anyone who has a newspaper for the past thirty years can tell you that being diagnosed with high cholesterol feels like walking around with a time bomb ticking in the chest. The simple and more superficial thing to do then is to blame cholesterol for clogged arteries , which leads to heart disease and, ultimately death...
