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Cholesterol (serum, or blood)

Last Updated: June 01, 2009 Related resource areas: Families, Food and Fitness

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Blood cholesterol is divided into three separate classes of lipoproteins: very-low density lipoprotein (VLDL); low-density lipoprotein (LDL), which contains most of the cholesterol found in the blood; and high-density lipoprotein (HDL).

LDL seems to be the culprit in coronary heart disease and is popularly known as the "bad cholesterol." By contrast, HDL is increasingly considered desirable and known as the "good cholesterol."

Reprinted from the International Food Information Council Foundation, (2009)


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