Organisms living in extremely cold temperatures run the risk of hypothermia and even their cells freezing. Cellular membranes with more cholesterol help insulate the organism and are less prone to freezing.

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Yes, its true up to some extend because some people have the habit of over eating when they are in stress or anger, so this habit can increase their weight and also the cholesterol figures.

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You can find information on healthy lifestyles websites or on magazines such as Healthy Life. Cholesterol bad foods are very common such as fast food restaurants. So, to lose a small amount of weight, stop eating fast food, which contributes a large portion of bad cholesterol will benefit you.

Eggs do contain a lot of cholesterol. This means that if you are on a cholesterol diet, eggs would be a really bad thing for you to eat. However, eggs to contain lower fat and sodium levels than most other meat or dairy products, so it is still beneficial to your health if you are not concerned about a cholesterol diet.

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It prevents the lipids on the cell membrane from sticking together

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Cholesterol comes from two sources: your body and food. In most people, the body – predominantly the liver – makes about 75 percent of blood cholesterol. The other 25 percent comes from diet. Of course, if your diet includes a great deal of dietary cholesterol or saturated and trans-fats, that balance would shift.

Usually eating foods high in cholesterol will cause it. Some people also have body chemistry that makes it hard for them to rid the body of cholesterol. These people develop high cholesterol even if they are careful about what they eat. They may need medication to keep it under control.

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High density lipoprotein is also known as good cholesterol.

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Some examples of foods high in bad cholesterol are eggs (specifically the yolks), caviars, livers and liver pates, shrimp, butter, fast foods, sardines, processed meats and shellfish just to name a few. Foods that are high in saturated fats are known to be full of the bad cholesterol and should be avoided or consumed in moderation.

Butter contains about 31mg of cholesterol.

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When it comes to meat, poultry, and fish mussels, they each contain about the same amount of cholesterol per ounce.

You will need to go to the doctors office and make an appointment to have you blood drawn and then you will get the results. Depending on where they take blood it might be in a hospital or a clinic.

The low-density lipoproteins transport cholesterol from the liver to specific cells and the high-density lipoproteins remove excess cholesterol from the body cells and return it to the liver where it can be excreted in bile.

Cholesterol is only partly soluble in water. Cholesterol is a lipid (fat) which in water at room temperature, most fats are mostly insoluble in water. At higher temperatures fats are slightly more soluble.

An LDL Cholesterol number is the number they give you telling you how badly your arteries are blocked. The higher the number of your LDL, the worse your blockage is. Lowering your number will help prevent a possible future heart attack.

If you are trying to get your cholesterol tested, then you may have to do things such as getting blood drawn from your arm. It is then ran through some machines which check the sample.

Cholesterol is only found on animal fats.

Although viewed as an evil nutrient since the 1930s, we've known that not to be the case since the 1970s. Cholesterol is a precursor to vitamin D and to the sex hormones, and if your diet doesn't have enough cholesterol in it, your body makes more of it.

Trans fats, produced by artificially hydrogenating vegetable fats and oils, is actually responsible for much of the cancer and heart disease blamed on cholesterol - and as the body has no use for trans fats, using lard and extra virgin olive oil is much safer than vegetable oils and shortenings that often are hydrogenated.