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HDL cholesterol is not a symptom, it is a type of cholesterol that occurs in your body and makes up part of your overall cholesterol score. HDL is the "good cholesterol" which removes build-up from artery walls and flushes the fat to the liver to be processed. When you get your cholesterol tested, a high HDL number is a positive result.
Blood cholesterol impacted by most of the things that you eat. Fats are the known to have a major impact of the blood cholesterol.
Cholesterol is made naturally in your body. Your body will always have LDL cholesterol.
Cholesterol is found outside the body.
Triglycerides are composed of glycerol plus three fatty acids.
No, actually, it will not. Your body needs cholesterol to do a great number of things, and if you are not getting it from the foods you eat, your body will make its own. There is absolutely nothing wrong with cholesterol. It has gotten a bad name for a number of reasons, none of them legitimate.
Exogenous is cholesterol from outside the body (from foods). whereas endogenous is cholesterol that is made in the body.
Dietary cholesterol can be absorbed by the body and utilized. The body's cholesterol production though is much higher than the general intake. If the absorbed amount of cholesterol increases, then the body's production decreases. Another "defense" which the body can use to avoid too much cholesterol in the system is to simply decrease the absorption of cholesterol.
The liver makes cholesterol.
Yes. Your body naturally makes enough cholesterol to sustain you, so there is no need for you to include cholesterol in your diet.
Cholesterol, a steroid, is the basis for all other hormones produced in the body.
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