By Lance Thorington
 Everyone talks about high and low cholesterol, but do you know what that means? It is a fat like material that is inside of every cell in your body. Cholesterol is used by your body to make vitamin D and to make hormones.
It also is needed to help your body properly digest the food you eat, so your body needs cholesterol in order to keep it functioning properly. However, your body creates all the cholesterol that your body needs to use. Unfortunately, cholesterol is contained in many foods such as animal fats, and as a result some people have too much in their bodies.
Do you know what your cholesterol level is? Everyone from the age of twenty on should have her cholesterol checked one a year. Your doctor will do a simple blood test after you have fasted for 9-12 hours prior to doing the blood work. The blood is sent to a lab and is tested to see what your cholesterol levels are.
There are several categories of cholesterol. The blood analysis will tell you what your |
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