Cholesterol
What is cholesterol?
Cholesterol has been said often we hear everyday. Keyword cholesterol is very attached to things about the delicious food, excessive weight, age, and so forth. Cholesterol tended known as something negative and we must avoid.
What is cholesterol exactly?
Cholesterol is a fatty compound complex, which 80% generated from within the body (liver) and 20%, the rest from outside the body (nutrients) for a variety of functions in the body, among others, form the cell wall.
Cholesterol is a substance which is in the foods we eat can improve cholesterol levels in the blood. But, as far as revenue is balanced with the need, our body will remain healthy.
Cholesterol is not soluble in the liquid blood, for it to be sent to the whole body needs to be packaged along with proteins called Lipoprotein particles, which can be regarded as a ‘bearer’ (carrier) cholesterol in the blood.