RADIO HEALTH PEARL #357 …brought to you by the Gesundheit! Nutrition Center.
How often do we hear that we have to watch that LDL-cholesterol, that BAD LDL-cholesterol!
Come to find-out that there are some great benefits attached to this fat:
• LDL inside a blood vessel provides similar benefits in healing and in fighting infections, as scabs do on the skin.
• Healthy young and middle-aged men with an LDL-cholesterol below 160 have lower white blood cells than those with an LDL reading of 160-and-over.
• LDL binds and inactivates dangerous bacterial toxins;
• And … there is a relationship between low LDL and various chronic diseases.
On the other hand we have HDL, good-cholesterol, that really is NOT THAT GOOD unless it is high: at least above 60, preferably above 85.
My suggestion is that you always get copies of your blood-work, and keep an eye on changes and fluctuations.
For more questions to end the confusion, please see us …at the Gesundheit! Nutrition Center on North 19th Avenue.