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What do fast food restaurant food such as hamburgers, cheese, cheese fries, french fries have in common? What do they have in similarity beside the delicious taste, and the satisfaction that it provides when eaten? These foods all have an extremely high amount of cholesterol. So we might ask well what is Cholesterol then? We define Cholesterol, as a pliable material created by the liver and found in certain fast foods, which is needed to create a source of vitamin D and some bodily type hormones in our body. It also creates cell walls, and creates chemical sodium that assists us in digesting fat in the stomach. Actually, our liver creates about two thousand milligrams of cholesterol in a day, which is pretty much enough amount of cholesterol that body has. But it is complicated to avoid cholesterol entirely because so many fast foods have them.

Too much cholesterol in the body can lead to serious problems like heart disease. Many factors can cause a high cholesterol level, but the better story is there are things we can do to control them in a much specific manner. Going into further discussion cholesterol is a type of fat, which is found in foods from animal sources. This means that dairy products that we consume such as eggs, meats, and even including milk are filled with cholesterol. Because cholesterol cannot move alone through the bloodstream, it has to attach itself with certain proteins. These proteins act like moving vehicles, or dump trucks picking up the cholesterol and putting them to different parts of the body.

The two most important types of proteins are high-density lipoproteins and low-density lipoproteins. We probably have heard people call low density cholesterol a really worst type cholesterol and high density cholesterol as cholesterol as a really well level cholesterol. We assume this because of their very different effects on our body. Most cholesterol is low density cholesterol and this is the kind that is most likely to block up the blood vessels and keeping blood from moving through the body the way it should.