Cholesterol: Friendly Rather Enemy

Why is it that after so many years, diet experts and doctors are suddenly discoursing people with information that cholesterol is an essential substance for the human body?

Digging deep into history, influential people blamed cholesterol for the increased mortality rate due to heart attack and other health problems. While In fact the culprit of this had already been discovered way back year 1972, but the trendsetter was mocked and even ridiculed even more by the leads of wealthy sugar manufacturers.

Well maybe you have guessed by the now who’s the true criminal is – it’s the sugar. And this is the bittersweet truth.
The true point is cholesterol is so important that our body actually produces it when we take less of it. You’re probably surprised why do we need cholesterol when almost everyone on Earth has been rejecting it for as long as we can all remember.

Not only that, Cholesterol is also the precursor for biosynthesis of hormones, bile and vitamin D. these substances are some of the major components of healthy organs.

As a matter of fact, there’s no such thing as “good cholesterol, neither “bad cholesterol,” like most of the articles in the internet proclaim. They are technically known as HDL (High-density Lipoprotein) and LDL (Low-density Lipoprotein).

These two are never cholesterol, the terms are mere explanations of it. LDL and HDL are lipoproteins. Though, this doesn’t mean LDL isn’t bad at all. LDL is still bad amidst of the fact that it is not a cholesterol in any way. Lipoproteins are like buses, they are transporters that carry out cholesterol, together with protein, phospholipids, and triglycerides.

To further explain why cholesterol isn’t LDL and HDL, or why it needs lipoprotein, it’s because cholesterol is a hydrophilic substance and this simply means it repels in liquid. This also means cholesterol can’t travel in the bloodstream alone. Cholesterol needs to be distributed all over the human body to perform its vital functions properly and it has to be carried away by the lipoprotein. To wrap up the facts about the cholesterol, let’s jump out straight into comparing the end-products of the key substances.

First stop, the carbohydrate, which can be categorized with the villain of all, the sugar. Carbohydrate eventually becomes glucose and used as fuel to energize the body. It’s not rocket science, the mendacious food pyramid tells us that. But intake of excessive glucose which verily can’t be used by the body will simply be stored as fat.

Secondly, one of the most important viands, protein. Protein is essential in many different ways and it is also a source of energy. This is why the human body doesn’t really need much carbohydrate as protein can effectively fill in for that. But like carbs, if taken too much, it transforms into fatty acid and it will be stored in the body.

For the bottom liner, the cholesterol which is riding alongside with protein through lipoprotein. It is being distributed from one part to another to accomplish its mandatory tasks. Excess of it goes straight in the liver, synthesized to be bile acid and exits our body as what humans call “waste” or “feces.”

That is the basic enlightenment for the long-time condemned and the unappreciated fatty substance called cholesterol. You know when they say “don’t blame the butter for what the bread did,” you just have to take this literally.

There are so many facts that you may discover. Do your research and don’t just rely on that mind-bugling World Wide Web. The eye-opening truth might leave you staggered. What you have found out about cholesterol now is just a prologue of the facticity behind the radiant bars of the mouth-watering, sweet lies.