Butter contains about 31mg of cholesterol.

100-150

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.

Your body converts cholesterol into Vitamin D. Cholesterol also facilitates memory.

The bulk of the diet comes from plant sources, including whole grains, breads, pasta, polenta (from corn), bulgur and couscous (from wheat), rice, potatoes, fruits, vegetables, legumes (beans and lentils), seeds, and nuts.

Hypercholesterolemia is diagnosed by using a blood test. A blood specimen is obtained after the patient does not eat or drink anything (except water) for 12 hours. The fasting is done to measure the LDL and HDL cholesterol.

Yes

There are many kinds of foods that are eaten when following a low cholesterol diet plan. Examples of foods that are eaten when following a low cholesterol diet plan includes fruits, vegetables, and tofu.

Energy storage.

HDLs are good cholesterol and LDLs are bad for you. LDL stands for Low Density Lipoproteins and they stick to the inside of the arteries, narrowing them and making blood pressure higher. If one of the 'plaques' is knocked off, it can block the bloodstream causing a heart attack.

HDL (high density lipoprotein) is considered your "good" cholesterol while LDL (low density lipoprotein) is considered "bad" cholesterol.

Your LDL or bad cholesterol level is the one that you should be most concerned about. 200 is a good number, but a cholesterol level around 100 is considered optimal.

yes because it can clot that can cause a heart attack because the delivered blood is not sufficient, because of the blood clot.

Triglycerides are an important factor when trying to lower cholesterol. As with the other types of cholesterol measures, high triglycerides can contribute to hardening of the arteries, which increases the risk of heart attack and stroke. Ideally, triglyceride levels should be below 200 (talk to your doctor for a personal goal) - and you can help lower triglyceride levels by reducing the amount of sugar and simple carbohydrates you eat.

Exercise more and otherwise be more physically active, eat less meat and more fish and vegetables, eliminate hydrogenated vegetable oil from your diet, reduce saturated fats from your diet, increase unsaturated fats in your diet.

Also consider supplementing your diet with Omega-3 and as a last resort get a doctor prescription for cholesterol reducing medication.

Hemoglobin

Initially upon losing weight with the Atkins diet your cholesterol will drop although if you continue on the diet after halting weight loss your cholesterol will drastically increase.

Hardening of the arteries.