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Want to Improve Your Annual Health Screening? Get the Skinny on Fat! EAT MORE : beans, peas, barely, fruits, vegetables, salmon, tuna, red/purple grapes, nuts What is CHOLESTEROL ? Essential for normal cell function and hormone synthesis BUT… excess LDL cholesterol will be deposited along artery walls & form plaque Excess Cholesterol Plaque Narrow Arteries Less Blood Flow HDL carries LDL (“bad cholesterol”) away from the heart to be excreted from the body “31 million adults in the U.S. have a total cholesterol of >240 (VERY HIGH)” CDC “31.7% of adults in the U.S. have high LDL” CDC

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Want to Improve Your Annual Health Screening? Get the Skinny on Fat!

EAT MORE: beans, peas, barely, fruits, vegetables, salmon, tuna, red/purple grapes, nuts

What is CHOLESTEROL?

Essential for normal cell function and hormone synthesis BUT… excess LDL cholesterol will be deposited along artery walls & form plaque

Excess Cholesterol à Plaque à Narrow Arteries à Less Blood Flow

HDL carries LDL (“bad cholesterol”) away from the heart to be excreted from the body

“31  million  adults  in  the  U.S.  have  a  total  

cholesterol  of  >240  (VERY  HIGH)”  -­‐  CDC  

“31.7%  of  adults  in  the  

U.S.  have  high  LDL”  -­‐  CDC