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Reduce Cholesterol and Heart Disease Will Disappear

Wherever you turn there is nowadays an active campaign against cholesterol, which is one of the most critical factors that causes heart attack in people as young as 45 years of age. By the way, did you know that not all cholesterol is bad? Cholesterol comes in two types, but it depends on what type you allow into your body – there is the good cholesterol and there is the bad cholesterol.

What Is the Relationship between Cholesterol and Heart Disease?

When you consume a diet rich in saturated fats such as deep fried foods, animal fat, butter, processed cheese, and other such stuff, you are inviting inside the body an enemy that you are unable to fight from inside without any outside assistance. As this bad cholesterol enters the body and reaches the arteries, it coats these (on the inside) with a sticky fatty tissue which is known as plaque.

When this happens, gradually the plaque grows inside the arteries. As this menace develops you will be able to see the connection between cholesterol and heart disease as here the bad cholesterol would gradually block off the flow of blood in the arteries. Sometimes the remedy for this problem is just a few medicines that can clear the plaque off the arteries.

Other times you will find that the cholesterol and heart disease relationship is far more serious to be cured with only a few medicines. Sometimes, it requires surgery to remove the accumulated plaque or to unblock the artery with the help of an inflated balloon which would clear the way.

According to many medical studies, cholesterol and heart disease are connected because the bad cholesterol acts directly upon a very important (key) protein that usually protects the body from harm by limiting its protective action. This protein is known as the 'transforming growth factor (TGF beta)'. The TGF acts as guard at the entrance of the heart (the aorta) where this protein is meant to keep all the harmful ingredients (plaque caused by cholesterol, hypertension, etc) at bay, so the heart stays protected.

When the cholesterol and heart disease relationship is imbalanced, the heart becomes vulnerable to diseases, which in most cases pave the way to a sure heart attack unless it is carefully monitored and treated correctly in time.

You need to keep in mind that the treatment by itself would not be too effective when you consume a high fat content diet because whatever good you would benefit from with medication would be counteracted by the high-fat, unhealthy diet you would adopt.