Thirty-five percent of all heart attacks occur in people with a total cholesterol between 150 and 199 mg/dl.
Your doctor may be happy with anything under 200 mg/dl – but you should be striving to get below 150. That's the "heart-attack proof" number. You also want your LDL number (the bad ones – think "lousy" or "loser") to be under 80.
The best way to get these numbers is to eat a plant-based diet.
Published on February 24, 2010 02:18