Healthy Tips

In recent decades, so many diet programs introduced by experts to aid people in losing weight. On the other hand, many diet plans too have been unsuccessful since diet-conscious people are more converged with merely just losing weight, and completely an aware of one’s health.

Hence, here comes Zone Diet. The Zone Diet started with the theory that a long-long time ago, every person eats meat. Hence, our ancestor metabolism is capable of dealing with what a meat-based diet calls for.

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In general, we know cholesterol mainly in a negative aspect. In fact, we really need cholesterol to make bile salts, hormones and vitamin D. Cholesterol is usually created by the liver. Cholesterol remains on the walls of arteries, if you have a very high level of cholesterol in the blood. Basically, There are 2 types of cholesterol: low density lipoprotein (LDL) and high density lipoprotein (HDL).
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LDL cholesterol

Cholesterol is not soluble in water. Cholesterol in the blood is in the form of complexes with specific protein carriers, the so-called apolipoproteidami. Low density lipoproteins (Low-density lipoprotein, or LDL) also known as bad cholesterol. High-density lipoproteins (High-density lipoprotein, or HDL) is also known as «good» cholesterol. Counting the total blood cholesterol is carried out by blood.

LDL bad cholesterol
When too many «bad» cholesterol circulates in the blood, it will slowly grow on the inner walls of arteries. Together with other substances to form the so-called plaques, making the arteries narrower and less flexible. This disease is called atherosclerosis. Blocked arteries of atherosclerotic plaque can lead to stroke or heart attack.

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