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...Frito-Lay's new products stack up? The whole line is cooked in trans fat--free oils, a big health benefit over many other snack foods, because trans fats raise the level of LDL, the "bad cholesterol." And the products are slightly lower in ordinary fat. Regular Tostitos and Natural Tostitos both have 140 calories a serving, but the natural chips have only 50 calories from fat, while the traditional ones have 70. And our tasters found that the flavor of the new products matched or sometimes even surpassed that of the traditional products. The Cheetos Natural White Cheddar Puffs...
Even cholesterol testing is less straightforward in women than in men. Whereas high levels of LDL, the so-called bad cholesterol, are pretty good at identifying men at high risk of heart disease, women seem more vulnerable to high levels of a different fatty substance, called triglycerides. In addition, women with low levels of HDL, the so-called good cholesterol, are more likely than men to develop heart disease later on. National guidelines suggest a minimum HDL level of 40 mg/dL for men and women. "But [low] HDL is a more powerful predictor of risk in women," says Dr. Lori...
Elevated lipids--cholesterol and triglycerides--are important risk factors. Although doctors have traditionally focused on levels of LDL (bad cholesterol), HDL (good cholesterol) may be a better predictor of heart-disease risk in women. Women should maintain HDL at levels as high as possible...
...prevent heart disease, you have to take cholesterol into account. The ACP hopes to publish new guidelines on cholesterol levels for diabetes within the next year. But the National Institutes of Health and the American Diabetes Association are already advising diabetics to try to keep their levels of LDL, the so-called bad cholesterol, below 100 mg/dL. Note that this number is different from total cholesterol, which shouldn't be more than 200 mg/dL...
...immune system's alarms. It can easily be picked up in the blood and provides a convenient measure of how inflamed the heart arteries may be. Ridker's team, which pioneered the study of CRP's role in heart disease, tracked the levels of both CRP and LDL ("bad" cholesterol) in nearly 28,000 women for eight years. They found that women with high levels of CRP were twice as likely to have heart disease as those with high LDL, and that many women who later suffered heart attacks would have been given a clean bill of health...