Dr Pete's Health Secrets

      Lets examine what role cholesterol plays in your blood circulation. From our teens plaque gradually gets deposited in the walls of our arteries. Plaque that accumulates on the inner walls and clogs your arteries is made from various substances that circulate in your blood. The major component of plaque is Cholesterol. Others include calcium, fat, cellular waste, and fibrin. Clogged arteries greatly increase the likelihood of a heart attack, stroke and even death. There are different kinds of cholesterol. Low density lipoprotein (LDL) or 'Bad cholesterol'. LDL harms your health and their levels should always be maintained low. Bad cholesterol can bring adverse effects to the body. High density lipoprotein (HDL) or 'Good cholesterol ' is beneficial to our body and their levels should always be high.  HDL is believed to remove some of the bad cholesterol from plaque in clogged arteries and transport it back to the liver, ...