Response from: Doris Jeanette, Psy.D.    (06/24/07 6:59am)

Do not take cholesterol numbers too seriously. Medical people keep raising the numbers considered to be unhealthy, yet there is no direct evidence cholesterol actually causes serious problems. (It is by association only.)

Inflammation is thought to be more of a casual factor by the holistic community. As a holistic psychologist, your emotional health and mental health have more to do with your physical health, than cholesterol numbers. The essential factor is to keep the energy flowing in your body, veins and arteries, so your heart and brain are healthy. Feeling your feelings and emotions will keep your blood flow vital and alive.

Response from: olegb    (04/15/08 3:31pm)

For those which can't yet afford a Cholesterol handheld device the only solution of checking their cholesterol levels is to visit a hospital laboratory. But, even Cholesterol is an important factor in calculating the risk of a heart attack, it is not always necessary that increased LDL and decreased HDL to be the substrate of an occurring heart attack. I would also agree with Doris Jeanette, Psy.D. who calls us to not give so much importance to our cholesterol levels as we use to.
I wrote on cholesterol at http://http://www.allheartattack.com/overview/where-cholesterol-come-f
rom.php
and hope this will help you better understand the cholesterol importance
have a healthy heart!