Balanced Existence

Cholesterol is vital to the function of the brain and the nervous system. Cholesterol protects against depression and plays a role in the utilization of serotonin, which is your body’s feel good chemical. Which is why the research shows that people on cholesterol lowering drugs have an extremely increased risk of depression, aggression, and suicide! So right after they get you paying for cholesterol lowing drugs they also get you paying for anti-depression drugs.

Cholesterol is a vital precursor for vitamin D. I’ve written a little about vitamin D and why it is vital to your health in my article My Battle With Chronic Fatigue and How I Won. But you should know vitamin D protects your from cancer and helps the bones of your children grow and keep yours strong. Your body uses cholesterol to repair itself such as with wounds and tears in arteries. Dietary cholesterol contributes to the strength of the intestinal wall. Only oxidized cholesterol found in powdered milk and eggs contributes to heart disease. Powdered milk is what they are putting in your low fat milk!

Western countries such as the United States and Australia are leading the way in terms of overweight and obese people. Roughly half of the population does eat breakfast. But 90% of those that do eat breakfast eat the wrong thing. In fact it has been shown that eating breakfast away from home, like so many of us do, increases your risk of obesity by a whopping 137%! If you belong to the other 50% of people who do not eat breakfast at all then you are increasing your risk of developing obesity by, wait for it, 450%!