Despite the information we read in the media about cholesterol being bad for us, we are in fact dependent on it for our survival. An interesting article published in last month’s Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) magazine revealed new evidence that people with high cholesterol are more likely to live longer.
In 19 large studies, there was an increased risk of dying from respiratory and gastrointestinal diseases where there was low cholesterol. Another study involving 2446 HIV negative males were involved in an 8 year research project. At the end of the study, 140 of them tested positive for HIV and those who had low cholesterol at the beginning of the study were twice as likely to be HIV positive in comparison with those who had the highest cholesterol.
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