HDL has long been hailed as the “good guy” in the cholesterol game your arteries are playing and you probably already know that you want a higher HDL number and an improved HDL to LDL ratio.
Now, the only question to answer is: Just how do you go about raising your HDL cholesterol numbers anyway?
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It’s the battle of the cholesterol types.
In one corner is the High-density lipoprotein (HDL) we call the good cholesterol. In the other corner is the low-density lipoprotein (LDL) we call the bad cholesterol.
So what exactly makes the HDL good and the LDL bad? At the risk of making things more confusing in the LDL versus [...]
If you’re a shrimp or lobster lover – and there’s a lot of you out there – the news that they are high in cholesterol probably didn’t sit very well with you.
Thoughts of Surf-and-Turf meals clogging your arteries and increasing your risk of a heart attack really took a lot of the enjoyment out of [...]
