Cholesterol has gotten a bad reputation in recent decades.
If you go up to any person---literally any person in the USA---and you ask them, “Is cholesterol bad for you?” 9 times out of 10 people will say “YES! YOU NEED TO STAY AWAY FROM CHOLESTEROL!”
People believe that having “high cholesterol” is the leading cause of high blood pressure, arteriosclerosis (hardening of your arteries), heart attacks and strokes.
Seeing as 1 in 4 people in the USA die from a heart attack, that paints a lot of blame on big, bad, ol' cholesterol.
But where did all of this come from?
And what is cholesterol exactly?
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