Cholesterol
noun
A compound found in most body tissues, including the blood and nerves.
Her doctor advised her to watch her cholesterol level.
Often appears as...
- high cholesterol
- low cholesterol
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noun
A type of fat in your blood. If you have too much, it can stick to the walls of your arteries, narrowing them and causing heart disease.
If you eat too much fatty food, your cholesterol levels may become too high.
Often appears as...
- high cholesterol
- cholesterol test
noun
A compound found in most body tissues, including the blood and nerves.
Her doctor advised her to watch her cholesterol level.
Often appears as...
- high cholesterol
- low cholesterol
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A type of fat in your blood. If you have too much, it can stick to the walls of your arteries, narrowing them and causing heart disease.
If you eat too much fatty food, your cholesterol levels may become too high.
Often appears as...
- high cholesterol
- cholesterol test
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Pro Tip 1/3Body Importance
Cholesterol is not all bad; it's vital for building cells.
Your body needs some cholesterol to function properly.
Pro Tip 2/3Health Context
Cholesterol is often discussed in health and diet topics.
Conversations about a healthy lifestyle include cholesterol talk.
Pro Tip 3/3Monitoring Levels
Cholesterol levels can fluctuate; regular checks are essential.
She has her cholesterol tested annually to monitor her health.
Pro Tip 1/3Body Importance
Cholesterol is not all bad; it's vital for building cells.
Your body needs some cholesterol to function properly.
Pro Tip 2/3Health Context
Cholesterol is often discussed in health and diet topics.
Conversations about a healthy lifestyle include cholesterol talk.
Pro Tip 3/3Monitoring Levels
Cholesterol levels can fluctuate; regular checks are essential.
She has her cholesterol tested annually to monitor her health.
Pro Tip 1/3Body Importance
Cholesterol is not all bad; it's vital for building cells.
Your body needs some cholesterol to function properly.
Pro Tip 2/3Health Context
Cholesterol is often discussed in health and diet topics.
Conversations about a healthy lifestyle include cholesterol talk.
Pro Tip 3/3Monitoring Levels
Cholesterol levels can fluctuate; regular checks are essential.
She has her cholesterol tested annually to monitor her health.
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How to stay calm when...
Now, you all know that high cholesterol is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, heart attack, stroke. And so you're thinking having high cholesterol isn't the best thing, and so the doctor says, "You know, I'd like to give you a drug that will help you lower your cholesterol, a statin."
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What does the liver do?...
that transport fatty acids and help form blood clots, to the cholesterol that helps the body create hormones. It also makes vitamin D and substances that help digestion. But one of its most vital products is bile. Like an eco-friendly treatment plant, the liver uses cells called hepatocytes
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How Your Memory Works --...
you know, people are comfortable thinking about having an influence over their health from the neck down, right? So especially with heart health, a lot of us count our number of steps or we'll go to the doctor and get blood pressure taken. And do we have high cholesterol?
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Speed Eating PIPE National...
health perspective it's important that they are doing things like having the cholesterol checked and and taking an active stance in their health pains my concern from a nutrition perspective is that speed eating or competitive eating kind of glamorizes the notion of
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What happens during a...
Doctors often prescribe low-dose aspirin, for example, particularly for patients who've already had a heart attack and for those known to be at high risk. And drugs that help manage risk factors, like high blood pressure, cholesterol, and diabetes,
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Can steroids save your...
In fact, our bodies make steroids out of cholesterol. That fatty cholesterol base means that steroids are able to cross fatty cell membranes and enter cells. Within the cell, they can directly influence gene expression and protein synthesis.
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Cell membranes are way...
is studded with other types of molecules, including proteins, carbohydrates, and cholesterol. Cholesterol keeps the membrane at the right fluidity. It also helps regulate communication between cells. Sometimes, cells talk to each other
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How can we solve the...
Scrutiny around prescriptions increased, which is good, but also lowered sales. At the same time, companies began to develop more drugs that are taken over a patient’s lifetime, like blood pressure and cholesterol medications,
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How to escape...
They should be diagnostic. They should help. If I go for a medical examination, I want some standardized tests. I do. I want to know what my cholesterol level is compared to everybody else's on a standard scale.
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How playing sports...
and that's definitely true. Exercising, especially when we're young, has all sorts of health benefits, like strengthening our bones, clearing out bad cholesterol from our arteries,
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How to stay calm when...
Now, you all know that high cholesterol is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, heart attack, stroke. And so you're thinking having high cholesterol isn't the best thing, and so the doctor says, "You know, I'd like to give you a drug that will help you lower your cholesterol, a statin."
Video examples
What does the liver do?...
that transport fatty acids and help form blood clots, to the cholesterol that helps the body create hormones. It also makes vitamin D and substances that help digestion. But one of its most vital products is bile. Like an eco-friendly treatment plant, the liver uses cells called hepatocytes
Video examples
How Your Memory Works --...
you know, people are comfortable thinking about having an influence over their health from the neck down, right? So especially with heart health, a lot of us count our number of steps or we'll go to the doctor and get blood pressure taken. And do we have high cholesterol?
Video examples
Speed Eating PIPE National...
health perspective it's important that they are doing things like having the cholesterol checked and and taking an active stance in their health pains my concern from a nutrition perspective is that speed eating or competitive eating kind of glamorizes the notion of
Video examples
What happens during a...
Doctors often prescribe low-dose aspirin, for example, particularly for patients who've already had a heart attack and for those known to be at high risk. And drugs that help manage risk factors, like high blood pressure, cholesterol, and diabetes,
Video examples
Can steroids save your...
In fact, our bodies make steroids out of cholesterol. That fatty cholesterol base means that steroids are able to cross fatty cell membranes and enter cells. Within the cell, they can directly influence gene expression and protein synthesis.
Video examples
Cell membranes are way...
is studded with other types of molecules, including proteins, carbohydrates, and cholesterol. Cholesterol keeps the membrane at the right fluidity. It also helps regulate communication between cells. Sometimes, cells talk to each other
Video examples
How can we solve the...
Scrutiny around prescriptions increased, which is good, but also lowered sales. At the same time, companies began to develop more drugs that are taken over a patient’s lifetime, like blood pressure and cholesterol medications,
Video examples
How to escape...
They should be diagnostic. They should help. If I go for a medical examination, I want some standardized tests. I do. I want to know what my cholesterol level is compared to everybody else's on a standard scale.
Video examples
How playing sports...
and that's definitely true. Exercising, especially when we're young, has all sorts of health benefits, like strengthening our bones, clearing out bad cholesterol from our arteries,
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Tom Frieden
American Public Servant
Health is correlated with quality of life. If you get regular physical activity, have social connections, control your cholesterol, keep your blood pressure at a normal level, don't smoke - these things can make an enormous difference not only in how long you live, but how much you enjoy your life in those years.
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Marjane Satrapi
Iranian Artist
Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure.
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Felicity Kendal
English Actress
I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.
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Mya
American Musician
I was raised on pork... steak, chicken, everything... And everyone in my family pretty much of the older generation has diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, cancer.
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Gregg Wallace
English Celebrity
I've changed my own lifestyle since a doctor warned me my cholesterol levels meant I was in danger of a heart attack.
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Bhumi Pednekar
Indian Actress
I stand for body confidence and against fat shaming, but I will not support people who live on bad cholesterol.
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Amanda Peet
American Actress
When I make a change, like when I found out I had high cholesterol, I just changed my lifestyle.
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David Perlmutter
American Scientist
Two forms of fat that are vitally important for brain health are cholesterol and saturated fat.
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Michael Greger
American Author
Breast cancer is thought to use cholesterol to help the cancer migrate and invade more tissue.
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Steven Wright
American Comedian
I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
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Tom Frieden
American Public Servant
Health is correlated with quality of life. If you get regular physical activity, have social connections, control your cholesterol, keep your blood pressure at a normal level, don't smoke - these things can make an enormous difference not only in how long you live, but how much you enjoy your life in those years.
Quote examples
Marjane Satrapi
Iranian Artist
Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure.
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Felicity Kendal
English Actress
I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.
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Mya
American Musician
I was raised on pork... steak, chicken, everything... And everyone in my family pretty much of the older generation has diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, cancer.
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Gregg Wallace
English Celebrity
I've changed my own lifestyle since a doctor warned me my cholesterol levels meant I was in danger of a heart attack.
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Bhumi Pednekar
Indian Actress
I stand for body confidence and against fat shaming, but I will not support people who live on bad cholesterol.
Quote examples
Amanda Peet
American Actress
When I make a change, like when I found out I had high cholesterol, I just changed my lifestyle.
Quote examples
David Perlmutter
American Scientist
Two forms of fat that are vitally important for brain health are cholesterol and saturated fat.
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Michael Greger
American Author
Breast cancer is thought to use cholesterol to help the cancer migrate and invade more tissue.
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Steven Wright
American Comedian
I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
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