What Do You Know About Cholesterol?
Cholesterol is one of those things that we have heard of but we don’t know exactly what it is, what it does and what we should do about it. We know we should cut doen on eating fats and smoking increses cholesterol too.
I did a quick research on the web and I was fascinated to see that cholesterol, which is a build up of a waxy substance in the arteries, was really only discovered back in the 1950’s during the Korean war. It turns out that the Pentagon wanted to know exactly what the cause of death in their soldiers was so they sent a team of pathologists to examine the bodies of 2000 servicemen.
The results shocked them because they found that young soldiers had large deposits of cholesterol even though they were all fit young men. They were shocked and so should we be because since that time while the medical people have learned a great deal about cholesterol, the rest of us are still ignorant.