Understanding cholesterol and the factors that affect it

NORTH COUNTY – Cholesterol is in many ways considered a dirty word. While cholesterol is too complex to categorize so easily, the widely known complications of high cholesterol make it easy to generalize cholesterol as something detrimental to human health.

But there’s more to cholesterol than meets the eye, and understanding this waxy substance can help men and women get a better idea of their overall health and what they need to do to be even healthier.

Where does cholesterol come from?

Cholesterol is produced by the body, but also comes from the food one eats. The human body makes all...