cholesterol

If you are the type of person that has struggled with having high cholesterol levels even when you were very young. There may be a solution to this problem, a particular medical condition that can affect, over 60,000 UK citizens. Which is hypercholesterolemia if you do have it, can lead to heart related problems and furring up of your arteries.

Rapeseed oil can cut the amount of cholesterol within your bloodstream by up to 29 percent over a period of five months; it will get to work on the triglycerides and will reduce your blood fat significantly.

In a study carried out in, Australia some children who have this particular condition, added the oil to their diets to see what effect it would have on them. During the first two months of the study, they took 15 grams of it and then moved up to 22 grams. After the period was over there levels of LDL had reduced significantly.

Compared to olive oil rapeseed oil contains half the amount of saturated fat so it's a lot healthier it's very high in unsaturated fat. So if you're a person that has problems with high cholesterol levels then rapeseed oil would make a very good choice for you. Rather than using olive, oil instead.

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In this part, we'll look at myths surrounding bad cholesterol, eggs, dairy products and sun-blocks.
 

Bad cholesterol is the cause of heart disease.

The TRUTH: Like fats, cholesterol may be damaged by exposure to heat, oxygen and free radicals. Both good and bad cholesterol are not immune to such exposure.

Free radicals are what's in the air and around food, that causes this oxidization; free radicals cause your freshly-cut apples to go brown (an obvious sign of oxidization). The free radicals make dairy products more "sticky" and tend to stick to the walls of arteries.  This sticky stuff is known as 'plaque'. You can see the plaque stuck in diseased hearts from post mortem-ed bodies of heart attack victims (my uncle was one, he was just 41 when he passed away and he ate a lot of meat in his heydays). 

The plaque found in diseased arteries and hearts can range from yellow to white - exactly the same colours of those found in cheese and milk (read more below!)

The oxidization of cholesterol (fats) is what contributes to the pathological buildup of plaque in the arteries. It's not whether good or bad cholesterol; it's whether the fat is oxidized.