Unhealthy lifestyles have made the cholesterol as the enemy of man. Yet, these substances beneficial for the brain and liver, and neural networks that exist in the human body. In fact, cholesterol plays a role in the formation of sex hormones.

Hearing the word cholesterol, our minds most certainly directed to the disease of death such as heart disease, stroke, and so forth. Opinion is increasingly shaped by the many advertisements of food products which gives the lure of "free cholesterol".

Excessive exposure, suggesting that cholesterol is a great enemy to human health. Really dangerous cholesterol?

Judging from history, cholesterol does give a bad record for the medical world. In 1908, experts have found that guinea pigs that were fed meat, dairy fat, and eggs will experience excessive fatty deposits on the walls of the arteries (blood vessels).

This causes blood vessels become narrower, known as atherosclerosis. The process lasts very long and is the forerunner of stroke and heart attack. In 1913, several experts to formulate that the deposition of fat is cholesterol.

In 1916, Cornelius de Langen, a Dutch doctor who was working in Indonesia, found that the number of Indonesian indigenous people who suffer from heart disease is lower compared to Dutch people who lived in Indonesia.


He made the speculation that a low cholesterol content among the people of Indonesia caused a diet that contains more elements of plants, rather than Dutch people who prefer meat and other animal foods.
At the end of World War II, research experts in Scandinavia found that deaths from heart disease dropped dramatically during the war. This was due to lower consumption of meat, milk, and eggs.

Currently, the scientists found that people who suffer from heart disease, generally have higher cholesterol levels than healthy people.