Uh-Oh – New, Ultra-Bad, Super-Sticky Cholesterol Discovered. . .
- Posted on May 29, 2011 at 9:46am by
Mike Opelka
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Just when you figured out the difference between the “good” cholesterol (HDL) and “bad” cholesterol (LDL), British researchers have discovered a third, type that sticks to the walls of your arteries.
The research, funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF), found that ‘ultra-bad’ cholesterol, called MGmin-low-density lipoprotein (LDL), which is more common in people with type 2 diabetes and the elderly, appears to be ‘stickier’ than normal LDL. This makes it more likely to attach to the walls of arteries. When LDL attaches to artery walls it helps form the dangerous ‘fatty’ plaques’ that cause coronary heart disease (CHD).
To the layman, it appears that this is not a new cholesterol, but merely one that latches onto the artery walls with greater strength. But it is a new form of cholesterol as LDL becomes MGmin-LDL. The article goes on to explain how this change happens;
They found that MGmin-LDL is created by the addition of sugar groups to ‘normal’ LDL — a process called glycation — making LDL smaller and denser. By changing its shape, the sugar groups expose new regions on the surface of the LDL. These exposed regions are more likely to stick to artery walls, helping to build fatty plaques. As fatty plaques grow they narrow arteries — reducing blood flow — and they can eventually rupture, triggering a blood clot that causes a heart attack or stroke.
MGmin-low-density lipoprotein (LDL) could be a key player that leads to heart disease. The study helps researchers understand it’s the shape and density of bad cholesterol in the body that causes damage and heart disease.
But not everything about this new, “ultra-bad” cholesterol is terrible. Metformin, a drug used to treat people with Type 2 Diabetes has shown promising results in lowering blood sugar levels in diabetes patients. Lowering those blood sugar levels might prevent LDL from morphing into MGmin-LDL. And that is a good thing.
According to the CDC, heart disease is killing one person every single minute in America. If you are doing the math, that’s over 500,000 people dying from heart disease every year.
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Comments (82)
mytwocents
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 5:26pmSeems strange. Why is the BHF doing test on how to extend life at the same time the British government employs means testing to determine if you will get care. 500,000, that’s a lot of people to add to the pool besides the expected ones they are counting already. Shouldn’t the gov. suggest to the BHF that it’s not a good idea to make people think they can live longer. Really, if the average life expectancy if 72 and I’m 76 and the doc. says there‘s nothing he can do I’m thinking there is nothing he can do because it’s beyond medical capability at this time. If, on the other hand, the life expectancy is 80 and I’m only 72 it may cross my mind my number is up, not with my maker, with the gov. Why raise expectations only to jerk the rug out from under you later unless they really are sadists.
Report Post »benrush
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 3:38pmAlso notice how every health care gimmick comes from some non-US source? The advertisers go to great lengths to describe how the only quality supplement you can take for your condition is to be found in a tropical village from Farbelow, and it takes excruciating measures to produce each half-drop, and it’s yours for only 99.00 semi-monthly, and it will make you live till you’re 150.
Nonsense, just take your vitamin C and lucine and skip the mindconditioned medical men who laugh and fatten their bank accounts on your fears and anxieties.
Report Post »benrush
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 3:34pmCholesterol doesn’t matter. What matters is do you have strong building materials for your body. If you don’t, then cholesterol steps in to fill in the gaps, which should have been filled in with Vitamin C and Lucine.
You can read all about on vitamin C foundation dot org.
by the way, does it make sense to YOU that you should take anti-cholesterol medication to prevent your body from doing what it was designed to do? You then, are perfect mark for the Big Pharma profiteers. No wonder they keep ratcheting up their measure for blood pressure and cholesterol counts – they have a great profit motive working on them.
Report Post »cnerd
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 2:39pmThey are trying to destroy all of our fun!
Report Post »powhatan
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 12:06pmIt is all hereditary….That is a fact! So whatever is discoverd….it is still all hereditary…
Report Post »moonpeace
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 12:04pmGrandpa ate his bacon every day, with bisuits fried in the same bacon grease, and he drank his whiskey every night. He lived to be 88. Who wants to live longer than that?
Report Post »mndjohnson
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 11:52amYou have to have a heart to begin with. I still think healthy longevity is a gift. My spine got injured in the prime of life in an on the job accident. I am not too worried about having chocolate now and then. hmmm death by Chocolate, death by injuries, death by caliphate. hmmm, I will like to go defending freedom…uh with chocolate in my pocket. ( :
Report Post »G
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 11:50amTo my Government: Please stay out of my arteries!
Victory Gardens. Remember them? I have put a vegetable garden in and some fruit trees and berries. Raw foods and and good quality meats are getting so out of hand. I have planted enough to share with some older people that I know and hopefully will have better health as time goes by.
Report Post »My heart goes out to those that cannot plant even a small garden due to living conditions. Buy local as best you can, meats included. ASK the grocery guys (if they speak English) where do they get their animals and produce from. LOCAL is best. Whatever you consume.
Countrygirl1362
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 11:49amHow much you want to bet some drug company already has a pill ready to go before this announcement.
Report Post »brknhrt
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 11:46amI am sure that there is a new (and very expensive) drug ready for release that will only have about a 2% benefit and will be marketed as the new cure-all.
Report Post »noleftturn
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 11:46amGreat!! Michele and her food nazis will be all over this.
Report Post »lketchum
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 11:30amJust eat what you like and eat when you are hungry and stop eating when you are no longer hungry.
Your body knows a lot more about what it needs than anyone at the USDA.
Report Post »Dont-hate-on-me-2
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 11:01amI could agre with most of you more. Its my body,that was given to me by god, He put the foods on Earth for myself and all people. Who is the goverment to tell me what i can and cant do with my body. I plan on living till im 95 sounds like a good year lol. I will eat what i want when i want. You bet that when this great food that we love is outlawed and the genral public wont have it that thier will be the self proclianed elites in power who will have it all and laugh at how stupid the people are, and how easy they are to munpulaite. bacon bacon bacon bacon!!!!!!
Report Post »i want the truth
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 10:48amI think we will all die from Obamacare. Or those Mercury light blubs quicker than greassy food.
Report Post »Ever wonder where they are putting those mercury light bulbs? They break in the trash people. If they are selling Mercury they need to have a special facility to drop off the Mercury products!!
wifezilla
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 10:33amFurther evidence that sugars, starches and carbs are the biggest health risk, NOT meat. Eat your bacon without fear, but pass on the toast.
Report Post »Deb C
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 11:03amNope – its he poisons used to grow and preserve our food. Do you really believe that all the herbacides, pesticides, fertilizers just disappear into thin air after its use ?
Report Post »teachermitch32
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 11:33amYou are both right! Everything in moderation (bacon, etc.), by organic on foods you eat regularly (milk, eggs, etc.), avoid processed foods (canned, pre-made frozen), lots of fresh made legumes (that’s beans for those in Rio Linda), whole grain breads….and lots of water.
Report Post »RN MOM
Posted on May 30, 2011 at 12:32amI agree. I stay clear of all processed foods, I try to eat foods that are not prepared by the food industry. After reading many books on this I have come to believe that it’s the processing that makes us sick and keeps us malnourished. It can be very costly to eat properly, but I think it’s worth the cost to keep my body healthy. I have also noticed that I have become allergic to many fruits, especially ones that have thin skins, this is a fairly recent development and I am sure it is traceable to the preservatives and pesticides that the growers use to enhance the fruits.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 10:32amMy great grandfather lived to be almost 100. My grandmother and grandfather are almost 100.
Report Post »They ate stuff like bacon and eggs, and fried chicken, and sausage and gravy w/ biscuits EVERY morning I can remember as a child.
Keep your laws off my body! (What was the pro-abortion slogan?)
There is VERY little our federal government is SUPPOSED to do. INSTEAD, they want to do EVERYTHING ELSE.
That is EXACTLY why our founders constrained them with a Constitution of “negative liberties”. The constitution rules the government. It does not rule the people. We are FREE. That does not mean we lack chains on our ankles. It means we are endowed by God with life and liberty. We are FREE to live our lives as WE see fit. It means the government CANNOT and SHALL NOT interfere with that… PERIOD.
Kromlik
Posted on May 30, 2011 at 10:39amCan not be said any better than that folks!!
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 10:28amJust like Glenn Beck says, ” Has anyone priced the cost of health food?”
Report Post »Deb C
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 11:05amThat’s the problem. Why should the consumer pay extra for food they should be buying in the 1st place ? Way to go USDA, FDA
Report Post »TRILO
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 10:27amFirst eggs were good for you, then were bad, now they are back to being good for you. Same with coffee, wine, etc. I am tired of this sky is falling mentality in the science community. Now medical and big pharma will have another excuse to develop and push another pill to solve our problems. Key to good health: moderation, exercise and less processed foods. It is not rocket science it comes back to two long lost concepts of personal responsibility and common sense.
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 10:23amMaybe they should talk about letting the USDA filter 15% of ground beef with fillers and ammonia.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 10:54amExactly! That’s why I hardly every eat hamburgers out (darn-it), I buy either organic or meat & chicken who claim they don’t use antibiotics or hormones in the animal. Just a margin of safety. Same with milk. There is a list of 12 veggies & fruits that might be safe enough, otherwise buy organic instead of oversprayed products. My mom is in mid-90′s and follows these suggestions. My family has high cholesterol but we all have a good ratio LDL/HDL. That‘s what I’ll go by, not the pills that might end up killing me first. I admit I hardly ever eat bacon or lunch meats because of the nitrates. I prob. do many other things that are worse??
Report Post »9thCommandment
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 10:09amIt is caused by global microwaving.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 10:17amOh God, the next great eco-nonsense…global mircowaving and the effect it has on the enviornment.
Good one, love the comment. Going to drive some progressives nuts with that one.
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 10:26amA guy I work with gets mad when I stick a small empty Dorito bag in the microwave oven for four seconds.It shrinks down to the size of a little ketchup packet.It is totally save..Try it! He thinks he may get cancer in the future from me doing this.I try to explain how a microwave oven works (radar waves)..He don’t get it!! He voted for obama too…Nuff said!
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 10:09amYou know what? We lived many, many, many generations for a long, long, long time without all this b.s.
I suspect the GOOD LORD knows how our bodies function and what we can eat or not eat. Our scales help us out on that score.
Why don’t you morons move back under the rock you came out from under and leave us all alone.
We do NOT need more medicines for anything!
Report Post »Nick Pable with Buckshot
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 12:52pm“According to the CDC heart disease is killing one person every single minute in America. If you are doing the math, that’s over 500,000 people dying from heart disease every year.”
Report Post »So Dumbagrandma’s solution to those trying to help the problem:
“Why don’t you morons move back under the rock you came out from under and leave us all alone.
We do NOT need more medicines for anything!” As usual a thoughtful, caring and tender response from the selfish old biddy – come on admit it you‘re a TROLL aren’t you? No-one is THAT stupid.
Silversmith
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 5:44pmNick – distrust of the scientific community since it’s connections to the political community have become visible leave us all a wee bit skeptical of any new horror that will need some new daily medication. As it says on Lipitor “taking this medication does not protect against heart attack” Honestly, you sound like you think they can prevent a heart attack. All I see is another reason for insurance not to pay out. Unless, of course you take the pill (read poison) they insist on. Go easy on Grandma and eat some real food – skip the fear mongering !
Silversmith
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 10:02amThey will name this the “Michael Moore” cholesteral…..You know you need to go on a diet when you have your local Krispy Kreme on speed dial!
Report Post »JCoolman
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 11:33amYeah, but I’m sure that he will go to Cuba for his care…right.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 9:55amOMG!!! I hope they can develop a simple test for this one.
Report Post »JCoolman
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 11:29amNope…just a panel of 15 experts. No need for a test, you see.
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 9:55amI’m with you – Health police go home.
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 10:03amFirst they come after your LDL’s ,then they come after your HDL’s, then they come after your BLT’s , then there are no more BLT’s.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 10:21am@Searching:
Understood – How long until people will have to call the ‘health police’ for someone daring to eat a ‘unhealthy item’ like a home made bacon sandwich with mayo on white bread?
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 10:32amMy bacon seldom makes it to the bread or mayo
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 9:51amHope it wasn’t in the bacon I just ate! Everybody is going to die sometime, leave us alone to enjoy living before it happens.
Report Post »ISeeDanger.com
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 10:05amIt’s in broccoli, or that is what my son tells me…
http://www.ISeeDanger.com
Report Post »Creestof
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 10:08amDarn! At this rate, I’ll die from natural causes before I get to enjoy the end of the world! I’ll have to redo my will to include all of my “prepper” gear.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 10:10amThen there is the French study that explains why the French have such a low incident of heart disease – red wine. So see, my bacon is a wash!
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 10:13amYeah, my Dr. keeps trying to get me on the cholesterol medication and I tell him when I read the label, the warnings scare me worse than the disease. As long as my ratio is below 4.5 I’m good to go without extra medication. Folks, they are in the business of selling pills that may or may not hurt us worse than the potential disease (if it’s a disease or normal?)
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 10:15am@Grandmaof5:
Morning, and now it looks like there will be one more excuse for the fed’s to attempt to interfer even more with our lives…for health reasons again. God above help us out.
Hope all is well with you and the kitties today, weather here is to be 90, with dust this afternoon. So we are enjoying a mild ‘cold front’ coming through the summer weather. Come and see ANGELA on my gallery if you have not already, just click the screename link and it will take you to it.
Report Post »Deb C
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 10:16amWhen people die before their “time” – families are ripped apart. Enjoy the bacon – bet your grandkid says the same thing.
Report Post »Deb C
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 10:20amUntil they find something better than nitrites to preserve bacon with – i’m passing
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 10:24am@Deb C:
My grandfather used to eat bacon and other such items; he enjoyed life til his death in his early 80s and still was out working the farm with the rest of us (myself included). My own doctors are amazed at the low level of cholesterol I have, I eat fairly healthy and do a lot of walking each day along with keeping active…for matters of faith I avoid pork…love turkey though…so as long as someone does the best to have a fairly healthy life and is active, there is no guarantee of ‘cutting life short’ for many I have seen live a very long time.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 10:24amQUICK! Tax somebody! Pass some legislation!
Report Post »Deb C
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 10:28am@ Snow
Farms are being divided up for subdivisions as well as mechanized. Too bad there aren’t the mom & pop
Report Post »farms there used to be. Our technology is such that we should be all living past 100
13th Imam
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 10:29amKathy Wasserman Shultz has just announced that the DNC and the O’Barry Administration has evidence that GWB and Dick Cheney developed this MGLDL at the same time they were placing explosives in the WTC the Pentagon, and that crater in PA, and at the same time as ordering the recession to begin ( with they leadership of the DEMOCRAT HOUSE and DEMOCRAT SENATE )
NY SLIMES reports,
Report Post »Seniors, Women, Minorities, Children hurt the worst (tks RUSH)
grandmaof5
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 10:32amSNOW, Angela is wonderful. Love the color contrasts, as usual, still waiting for whiskers (LOL). Hope your cold front gets here, rain chances low, heat high. Kitties are all good. Hope dust won’t make your allergies worse than they have been, and that you are feeling better.
Report Post »lovenfl3
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 11:03amThen in 10 years they’ll come back and tell us that this is a good cholesterol. I am so sick of the “scientific studies.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbXPpBLlc1U
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 11:11amIf you will do a littl;e research you will find that a high carb diet is the cause for high cholesterol, not a high fat diet. I have been on a Paleo high fat diet for years and i have over the top healthy numbers But the healthcare industry wantds you sick, so it puts you on a low fat high carb diet that will kill you.
Eat low glycemic nauural foods and you will beat type II Diabetes like I have. I enjoy my good healthy fat diet and avoid man made transfat foods. Grill meats on the bar b que and eat green and you will love a long long time….Eat that low fat processed crap and continue to be sick until you die.
Report Post »1proudAmerican
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 11:21amWhat food are they going to try to ban now?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 11:33amJust another excuse for the “food police” …. right MO? …. do as I say not as I do …
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 11:50amGreat now Michelle Obama can find more things to keep me from eating under the auspice of giving us all bad cholesterol.
Report Post »GEW
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 12:29pmI agree with you, “everybody” is going to die sometime. However, everybody wants to live “forever”. It is sad, but they do. The fear of dying is so strong and so played upon in all cultures that humanity in itself has become inhuman when it comes to living. Ask anyone as the song ask, “Who wants to live forever?” and watch the hands go up.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 1:24pmLOVENFL, that is if you can even believe the study, after all, global warming was a hoax so who is to say that MO didn’t do this so she could further her agenda.
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 2:29pmWe all KNEW it would get around to SUGAR.. they are already CONTROLLING what kind of FATS we eat NOW they are going for the SUGAR.. I was just working on my family tree seems my relatives didn’t know they were all suppose to die YOUNG back then.. they kept living into their 80‘s and 90’s back in the 1700′s want to bet they NEVER had a blood test..and could care less what was suppose to be good for you.. most likely ate butter, cream, milk, fried chicken, beef, biscuits, veggies, and drank home made beer and wine.. what they didn‘t have was the FDA telling them what WASN’T good for them..or a bunch of over paid researchers doing the same..
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 2:33pm@Bluebonnet…EXACTLY.. beside the active ingredient that doesn’t have side effects in that medicine is NIACIN.. thus the name NIASPAN.. basically a pill you can get at any heath-food store for $3 the other ingredient is most likely aspirin which CURES more things than all the NEW MEDS without all the side effects..
Report Post »1TrueOne55
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 3:35pmJust another way to get pharmacueticals into your diet. When God says its time after 70 yrs of life then you will go no matter how many drugs you put into your system…
YOU HEAR ME SOROS>>> Your day is coming and soon, your heart is guaranteed to stop any time soon now, no manner of drugs will stop that process. Your Evolution theory will come to fruition…
Report Post »SanDiegoCountyCitizen
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 4:16pmSure, so long as we don’t have to indemnify your hazardous behavior by including you in our insurance pools, such as medicare, do all the stupid things you want too!
Report Post »DisposableWorker
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 5:38pmJust gimme another big Ruben sandwich with a cold He-brew beer! Hahahahah…
Report Post »avenger
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 8:56pmthe cure for this new ailment is 8 Oz. of crisp smoked country bacon with 2 eggs(over) and real home fries in the morning…plus real black coffee.
Report Post »Parhae
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 9:21pmI like your attitude. Keeping people with Medicare alive with medications and surgeries is bankraupting this country. Please keep your blood pressure high and eat whatever you want, in this way chance of dying suddenly from a stroke or heart attack around age of 60 will save this country lots of money. Have you ever wondered why you don’t see people dropping dead in their 60s of heart attack anymore? Maybe because of cholestrol and blood pressure medicines?
Report Post »ecurbyy
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 9:28pmYeah; I used to worry about things like cholesterol and stuff, but I did some research and found that 10 out of 10 people die!
Report Post »Rashomon
Posted on May 29, 2011 at 11:25pmOne pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small and the ones that Mother gives you don’t do anything at all.
Report Post »triper57
Posted on May 30, 2011 at 1:03amDie from cholesterol or die from the death panel denying some treatment for another disease, take your pick. Why the bother of extending our lives.
Report Post »King4wd
Posted on May 30, 2011 at 6:45pmDon’t worry. The only foods with this cholesterol are the ones that taste good. There are still plenty of healthy foods to be pushed on us and they all taste like sawdust, lawn clippings or plywood. Its a win-win!
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