Cholesterol Quotes

Accelerated growth requires production of new cell membranes, and one of the main components of membranes is cholesterol. - Vassilios Papadopoulos

A woman needs to know about blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol. And she needs to know the kinds of things she can do to stay healthy. - Elizabeth Ross

A one-third cup of rice served with a half-cup of red beans has the same amount of protein as one ounce of meat. It's a good way for people who are trying to control animal and cholesterol food sources to incorporate protein in their diet. - Rosalind Allen

[It wasn't so many years ago that your temperature and pulse were virtually the only aspects of your health you could check without paying a visit to the doctor. (Of course, it was always possible to calculate how tragically overweight you were in the privacy of your own home.) But a proliferation of do-it-yourself health-care products has changed all that, transforming millions of homes into virtual laboratories. Using largely inexpensive kits bought over the counter at pharmacies, consumers can now test themselves for glucose level, blood in the stool, urinary tract infections, blood pressure, pregnancy and, in an imminent new option, cholesterol level.] There's a very important shift of medical technology out of the hospital and into the home... What's happening is people are beginning to realize that lay people not only are recipients of health care but they can become providers. - Tom Ferguson

[For Behar, the therapy was successful and her cholesterol levels came down.] It was almost like the kind of high you get when you drop some weight... [The weight loss] was like in two months and how much [weight] could you lose in two months, 5 pounds? You know it was like weight loss but it wasn't. - Joy Behar