Know your cholesterol

   Cholesterol
1) Soft fat like waxy substance

2) Found in blood ;cells and food we eat

3) Needed for cell membranes

4) Helps in making hormones and  Vitamin D

5) Cholesterol is manufactured I'm the liver

6) Cholesterol sources meat poultry fish eggs butter

     Whole milk cheese .No plant sources

                      Good Cholesterol (HDL)

    Tends to carry cholesterol away from arteries and back
 
     and back to liver where it is broken and excreated

                            Bad Cholesterol (LDL)

Too much can clog arteries .
LDL bad cholesterol has tendency to built up on walls of arteries
Bad cholesterol is harmful can cause heart attack
Brain attacks also called as stroke.


                    Saturated  Fats
   
          Fats are fattening

         Eat Fats less than 30 percentage
         Of daily calories


    Saturated Fats 10%
         Unsaturated Fats 20%


Cholesterol Ratio

Total Cholesterol/ HDL cholesterol

Normal  less than 4.5

Eg  if Total Cholesterol 200
And HDL cholesterol 50
The ratio 4

If Total cholesterol 200
And HDL  cholesterol 30
Ratio 6.6
Although Total cholesterol is same since HDL Cholesterol  is different.


   
 Total cholesterol:. Optimally less than 200 mg% .

Borderline high 200-239mg%


High risk 240mg% and above

Bad Cholesterol (LDL) : optimal less than 100mg%
Border line high 130--- 159mg%

High Risk

160mg,%and above

Good cholesterol (HDL)    optimal
Less than 40mg% for males
And less than 50 mg% for females

Ref National. Cholesterol education

Cholesterol 1000mg produced daily in our body
From our daily diet we get 300 mg cholesterol
Cholesterol / 100gm of chicken 78mg
Chicken liver contains 472mg cholesterol per 100gm

Yellow part of egg contains 260mg cholesterol per egg
Prawns per 100gm cholesterol
Quantity is 150mg
White of an egg is cholesterol free.