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The received wisdom currently holds that the lower your cholesterol, the healthier you are.<\/p>\nThe received wisdom currently holds that the lower your cholesterol, the healthier you are.<\/p>\n
This may, however, not be the truth.<\/p>\n
A new study by scientists at Aston University in Birmingham in the UK, published in the European Heart Journal<\/em>, reveals that high cholesterol can decrease your risk of a specific cancer by almost 38%.<\/p>\n Researchers identified 16,000 women diagnosed with high cholesterol and 16,000 women of similar age and lifestyle with normal cholesterol.<\/p>\n After the 14-year study period, 0.8 percent of those with normal cholesterol had been diagnosed with breast cancer, while only 0.5 percent of those with high cholesterol had.<\/p>\n This means that those women with normal cholesterol were 38% more likely to develop breast cancer than those with high cholesterol.<\/p>\n This was a surprising result and doctors wildly guessed that statin drugs (taken for high cholesterol) were responsible for lowering breast cancer risk. Yet there was no data to support this.<\/p>\n Previous studies have already found that your breast cancer risk is more linked to the type of cholesterol you have than your overall cholesterol levels.<\/p>\n In 2005, for example, a study in the journal Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention<\/em> concluded that women with low HDL cholesterol were more likely to develop breast cancer, primarily because they also have raised estrogen levels.<\/p>\n High cholesterol is not the problem, it\u2019s the kind of cholesterol you have that causes plaque buildup in your arteries.<\/p>\n And a new discovery has revealed that cutting out ONE single ingredient, you didn\u2019t even know you were consuming, will completely clear out your heart arteries in 30 days or less.<\/p>\n