What are the levels of cholesterol in Australia? What are considered healthy levels of overall levels of good cholesterol and bad in Australia? What about triglycerides?
I have high cholesterol. If your cholesterol is between 5.5 and 6.5 the risk of heart disease is increased slightly.
If your cholesterol is above 6.5 then you must make other changes.
Triglycerides can increase the risk of heart disease and should be less than 1.5.
A healthy diet and exercise helps reduce cholesterol.
Hi John, someone who will study the cholesterol knows that it's just a scam to sell cholesterol-lowering agents (statins). It all started with a rabbit, a doctor named Ancel Keys, a large study called the Framingham study, all the faults and proven by thousands of scientists, doctors and research.
Cholesterol levels are Protector of the body and "Plasterer" or "band-aid" if it is useful to explain it better. It is very important in life than the body can manufacture 100% of the cholesterol needed even if we have 0% of our food. This makes an ideal model for the introduction of a drug that "works" and that patients can see their blood tests that ensures that drugs are "rescuing" . Because once you turn off the enzyme that allows the body to own cholesterol, serum concentrations decline as the patient also limits his cholesterol intake.
The idea that higher cholesterol levels increase the chances of death from coronary heart disease is like saying high white blood cells are more likely to kill you, so we will develop a drug to lower the white blood cells. We KNOW that white blood cells indicates high infection - an underlying condition that causes the pathological findings of a high number of white blood cells. These cells are just doing their job and they are not bred for any reason.
Posted on March 12, 2010.
