But cholesterol is neither ‘good’ nor ‘bad’. It is just cholesterol. And anyone who continues to use this simplistic terminology exposes his or her ignorance of how ‘cholesterol’ is or is not involved in causing heart disease. When anyone uses these terms in your presence, my advice is that you absent yourself since nothing constructive will come from that ignorant discussion. For the truth is that cholesterol does not even exist in the blood as a fat, that is as cholesterol. Instead cholesterol is insoluble in water (and blood) because it is a fat. So it can be transported in the blood only
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