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