Cholesterol
Who says cholesterol is not important! Humans apparently can not live without cholesterol, since cholesterol for the body's function is very important. Cholesterol is a cell wall-forming material, the author of bile acids to regulate fat, it is also needed to make vitamin D and also serve as materials for making hormones, sex hormones and corticosteroids.Because so many functions, 70-75% of cholesterol in the blood produced by the liver. The rest of the food intake.
But there is a good and bad tone. Good cholesterol known as HDL, function, carry cholesterol from the walls of the arteries back to the liver to the gallbladder was taken to the next. While the bad cholesterol known as LDL. Its function is to carry nutrients from the liver into cells throughout the body and often leaving a trail of cholesterol deposits on blood vessel walls. Easily embedded in nature and cause accumulation of fat that can constrict blood vessels.We must ensure that no excess LDL cholesterol. When this happens it means we suffer hiperkolesterolmia. It could of lifestyle and genetic factors / heredity. Eating too much saturated fat foods and high cholesterol, smoking, drinking alcoholic beverages and lack of exercise can be a trigger. You who come from families that have a history of hypertension, obesity, diabetes also must be wary hiperkolesterolmia militus.
