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fries, eggs, butter, desserts, ice cream. your cholesterol number is a good measure of what s in the blood. but here s the problem it doesn t tell if you it is building up in the walls of your blood vessels forming plaque. it s the plaque that causes heart attacks. if you look in the coronary care unit at people that have heart attacks, the cholesterol levels of those who have heart attacks versus those in the street who have it are essentially the same. that is kind of surprising. right? because you ll hear people exchanging their cholesterol numbers. if it is low they seem quite proud of it. if it is high, there s cause for concern. you say that that s you know what? you re not looking in the right place. that s essentially useless. here s what does matter, he says. the size of your ldl, or bad cholesterol particles. larger ldl particles don t pose much of a threat because they pass through the blood vessels without sticking. it is the smaller ldl particles that are more

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