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A
Adipose Tissue: (also see Body Fat)
Aging: (see Sugar or Carbohydrates)
Agriculture
Allergies: (also see Enzymes)
Alpha-amylase: (see Enzymes)
Amino Acids: (also see Protein)
Anachidonic Acid: (see Essential Fatty Acids)
Antioxidants
Aspartame: (see Food Additives)
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD):
 
B
Behavior and Nutrition
Blood
Blood Pressure
Blood Vessel
Body Fat: (also see Toxins or Fat )
Bones : (see Osteoporosis )
Brain: (also see Essential Fatty Acids)
Butter
 
C
Caffeine: (also see Diabetes)
Calcium: (also see Vitamins or Osteoporosis)
Calorie: (also see Sugar, Carbohydrates or Fat)
Cancer
Carbohydrates: (also see Glucogenesis, Pancreas or Sugar)
Celiac Disease
Cells: (also see Disease or Essential Fatty Acids)
Cellulite: (also see Essential Fatty Acids)
Child & Infant Health:
Cholesterol
Colloidal Minerals: (also see Minerals)
 
D
Deficiency: (also see Nerves or Essential Fatty Acids)
Diabetes: (also see Pancreas)
Diets
Digestion
Disease: (also see Heart Disease)
Drugs
 
E
Eisonanoids: (see Prostaglandins)
EFAs:(see Essential Fatty Acids)
Endocrine system:(see Pancreas)
Energy: (also see Essential Fatty Acids)
Enzymes: (also see Milk or Lactose)
Essential Fatty Acids: (also also see Energy or EFAs)
Essiac®
Exercise: (also see Metabolism)
 
F
Fat (Dietary): (also see Body Fat and Adipose Tissue)
Fiber
Fish Oil: (also see Essential Fatty Acids)
Folic Acid:(also see Vitamins)
Food Additives
Free-radicals:(see Antioxidants)
Fructose (fruit sugar): (see Sugar or Carbohydrates)
 
G
Genetic Modification
Glucogenesis: (also see Carbohydrates)
Glucose
Gluten
Glycemic Index
Gout
Grains: (also see Food Additives)
Growing Methods
 
H
Heart Disease
Herbs
Homogenization:(see Milk)
Hydrogenation:(also see Trans fats)
 
I
Innuit
Insulin: (see Pancreas)
Irradiated Food
 
J      
 
K
Ketones
Kidneys
 
L
Lactose: (also see Milk or Enzymes)
 
M
Margarine
Metabolism
Milk: (also see Lactose or Enzymes)
Minerals
Monosaccharides
Muscle
 
N
Nerves: (see Deficiency or Essential Fatty Acids)
Nitric Oxide
 
O
Obesity
Okinawans: (see Innuit)
Osteoporosis
 
P
Pancreas: (also see Diabetes)
Prions:(see Disease)
Polycystic Ovary Disorder
Pregnancy/Infant Development
Protein
Prostaglandins: (also see Essential Fatty Acids)
 
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S
Salt
Serotonin
Silver Supplements
Skin
Soy
Soy and Infants
Soy and Sex
Sugar: (also see Carbohydrates)
Sweeteners
Syndrome X
 
T
Toxins: (also see Body Fat)
Trans fats: (also see Hydrogenation)
 
U

V
Vaccinations
Vegetarian/Vegan Diets: (also see Soy & Protein)
Vitamins: (also see Minerals and Soy)

W
Water
Weight Loss

X
Xanthine Oxidase: (also see Milk)

Y

Z
Zinc: (also see Vitamins and Minerals)

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The misconceptions about Cholesterol abound, but the facts are already established. Cholesterol is vital for numerous biological functions, and dietary cholesterol does not significantly impact cholesterol levels in the body.

LDL needed by the body:
LDL occurs naturally in the body and is essential for bodily functions vital for life. Only 20% of blood cholesterol is derived through diet.60-70% of all blood cholesterol comes from production by the liver, not from pre-formed cholesterol in the foods. Reference: Turley, S.D. and Dietschy, J.M. "The Metabolism and Excretion of Cholesterol by the Liver," in The Liver: Biology and Pathology, pp. 617-642, ed. By I.M. Arias Raven Press, N.Y. 1988. 

LDL is also vital because it transports essential fatty acids into the cells. Reference: Enter the Zone, page 121.

Cholesterol structure:
EFA deficiency causes defective cholesterol and phospholipid structure – the real reason for misunderstanding cholesterol LDL.

The body regulates dietary sugar, but there is no regulator in the body for dietary cholesterol. What do you think this means?

Most cholesterol NOT produced by diet:
"With even a 30% fat diet, increasing dietary cholesterol from 319 mg to 941mg per day [close to a 300% increase], the blood LDL only increased a mere 6% [6 points]!" Reference: Metabolism 2001 May;50(5):594-597

Cholesterol and cell structure:
Cholesterol necessary for lipid bi-layer of cells. Reference: Molecular Biology of the Cell, pg. 481., Bruce Alberts, Dennis Bray, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, ke Roberts, Keith Roberts, James D. Watson, Garland Pub, March, 1994, ISBN: 0815316194

Over 90% of cholesterol is found in the body cells. If there is not enough cholesterol in the cell membrane, the walls lose their rigidity and expand outward, due to the inner pressure of the cell, leading to possible cell damage, or destruction. Reference: Textbook of Medical Physiology, pg. 872-873, Arthur C. Guyton, John E. Hall, W B Saunders Co., January 15, 1996, ISBN: 0721659446 & Elisabeth Schafer, Ph.D., Extension Nutrition Specialist Diane Nelson, Extension Communications Specialist Iowa State University & The Consumer's Good Chemical Guide by John Emsley (Science Writer in residence at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London), ISBN 0-552-14435-5, Corgi 1996.

Cholesterol is essential for life. Over 90% of cholesterol is found in the body cells, where it gives integrity to the cell structure and regulates the two-way flow of nutrients and waste products. Reference: The Consumer's Good Chemical Guide by John Emsley (Science Writer in residence at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London), ISBN 0-552-14435-5, Corgi 1996. & Molecular Biology of the Cell, pg. 481., Bruce Alberts, Dennis Bray, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, ke Roberts, Keith Roberts, James D. Watson, Garland Pub, March, 1994, ISBN: 0815316194.

Reference: Elisabeth Schafer, Ph.D., Extension Nutrition Specialist Diane Nelson, Extension Communications Specialist Iowa State University.
 
Reference: The Consumer's Good Chemical Guide by John Emsley (Science Writer in residence at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London), ISBN 0-552-14435-5, Corgi 1996.

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