All We Need to Know About Cholesterol

Cholesterol is a fatty substance, a basis for hundreds of chemical processes in the body. Animal meat, cream, butter, and eggs contain large amounts of it and its presence in excess amounts in the blood stream is believed by some medical investigators to be responsible for arteriosclerosis. In this disease, fat plaques in the inside wall of arteries cause the wall to thicken and roughen.

Ultimately the flow of blood through that portion of the artery is restricted, or a piece of the roughened wall may tear away and block the flow of blood to those tissues served by the artery. When this occurs in the arteries that supply the heart muscle with blood, the condition is called coronary thrombosis.

It has been proposed that a definite correlation exist between severe coronary attacks and excess blood cholesterol. Other medical investigators have produced arteriosclerosis in animals by feeding them diets high in cholesterol. Certain hearth specialists advocate a low-fat diets to prevent or control coronary hearth disease, but other believe that since the body produce its own cholesterol, dietary restriction of it will not help appreciably.

Sometimes high-protein, moderate fat and low carbohydrate diets have been employed with some success. Investigations indicate that factors other than existence of excess fat may be responsible for arterial hardening. These may involve the body's ability to metabolize the cholesterol, or its ratio to other substance, such as protein and phosphatides, in the blood stream, the size and number of the cholesterol molecules, and the effect of exercise on the amount of circulating cholesterol. In one experiment, it was reported that a definite correlation between exercise and a reduction in certain types of cholesterol molecules existed.

A potent anticoagulant has been developed which will reduce cholesterol, triglyceride, and phospolid levels by from 25 to 38 per cent. This drug has been successful in reducing serum and aortic cholesterol levels.

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