Medical Missionary Training/ cholesterol

Question 1

What is Cholesterol?

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Fat-like was-like substance found in the blood, it is found in the cellular structure.

Question 2

Cholesterol is both a

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Hero an a villain

Question 3

While we cannot live

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Without it ; in excessive amounts, it can kill us.

Question 4

The blood cholesterol level is the single most

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Important factor in determining a person’s risk for heart disease, the nation’s number one killer. P 118 Health Power

Question 5

American Heart Association ( AMA) say that,

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An ideal cholesterol level is less than 200mg%:

Question 6

However, according to the Framingham Heart Study.

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Individuals with cholesterol level of 150mg% or below are yet to have a heart attack.

Question 7

Symptoms: High Pressure, Poor circulation, chest pain,

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Diabetes, erectile dysfunction, and slow wound healing,

Question 8

Function: Cholesterol is responsible for producing all

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Sexual hormones in the body, such as 
Estrogen 
Progesterone 
Testosterone 
As well as all other hormones that is produced in the body

Question 9

It is also responsible for Vitamin D production in the body,

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Responsible for making “bile” in the liver, Adrenaline, the “fight or flight” hormone,

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Reducing stress, plus

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Over two hundred other functions in the human body.

Question 11

Cause: where is cholesterol found?

Answer 11

Cholesterol is manufactured in the liver and provides all the cholesterol the body needs.

Question 12

When we ingest additional cholesterol in our diet,

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It causes our blood cholesterol to go up.