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27th November, 2008 - Posted by health news - No Comments

It’s difficult to think that your body really needs it when cholesterol has so much bad press. There are two categories of cholesterol in your body, good cholesterol also known as HDL cholesterol, and bad cholesterol or LDL cholesterol. Cholesterol in your body is required to create hormones, vitamin D and bile salts to be healthy.

The bad cholesterol on the other hand can cause you many inconveniences. The main concern with LDL cholesterol is that it will dump cholesterol onto artery walls that will make plaque. The plaque in turn will make the arteries to narrow and then block. This could be the cause of blood flow to be blocked, which is bad news for your heart.

There are a lot of confusing terms being said when it comes to cholesterol. Dietary cholesterol is one of those terms. You may believe that all dietary cholesterol is bad, but actually, dietary cholesterol does not raise blood cholesterol as high as you might believe. The two bad guys here are trans fatty acids and saturated fats.

So what you want to do when you think of cholesterol problems is to reduce your levels of bad cholesterol. The best way to achieve this is through dietary changes. As well as reducing foods with bad cholesterol such as meat, dairy, eggs and seafood, you could also eat different foods that would reduce LDL levels.