{"id":27417,"date":"2017-12-23T23:25:04","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T23:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=27417"},"modified":"2017-12-23T23:28:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T23:28:32","slug":"cholesterol-hdl-vs-ldl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/cholesterol-hdl-vs-ldl\/","title":{"rendered":"Cholesterol: hdl vs ldl"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>More lifestyle tutoring: the tutor continues to research cholesterol.<\/h1>\n<p>Perhaps many of us have heard that HDL is the &#8220;good&#8221; cholesterol, while LDL is the &#8220;bad&#8221;. What&#8217;s the difference?<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:130%;font-family:monospace;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:darkGreen;color:silver;padding:12px;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size:130%\">HDL:<\/span> collects cholesterol from the blood and conveys it to the liver, where it will be cleansed from the body.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:130%\">LDL:<\/span> conveys cholesterol to an artery, where it may be deposited to form plaque. As a result, the artery wall thickens, while its room for blood passage decreases.<br \/>\n\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\"><\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heart.org\/HEARTORG\/Conditions\/Cholesterol\/AboutCholesterol\/Atherosclerosis_UCM_305564_Article.jsp#.Wj7h31WnEdU\">www.heart.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health\/hdl-vs-ldl-cholesterol#hdl-vs-ldl\">www.healthline.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/cholesterol\/ldl_hdl.htm\">www.cdc.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heart.org\/HEARTORG\/Conditions\/Cholesterol\/HDLLDLTriglycerides\/HDL-Good-LDL-Bad-Cholesterol-and-Triglycerides_UCM_305561_Article.jsp#.Wj6Wp1WnEdU\">www.heart.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More lifestyle tutoring: the tutor continues to research cholesterol. Perhaps many of us have heard that HDL is the &#8220;good&#8221; cholesterol, while LDL is the &#8220;bad&#8221;. What&#8217;s the difference? HDL: collects cholesterol from the blood and conveys it to the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/cholesterol-hdl-vs-ldl\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cholesterol: hdl vs ldl<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,1370],"tags":[2652,2651,2650],"class_list":["post-27417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-health","tag-difference-between-ldl-and-hdl-cholesterol","tag-good-cholesterol-vs-bad-cholesterol","tag-ldl-vs-hdl-cholesterol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27417"}],"version-history":[{"count":63,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27480,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27417\/revisions\/27480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}