It's time for Dishing Up Nutrition with licensed nutritionist Darlene Cavist.

Each week, Darlene explains a connection between what you eat and how you feel.

Stay tuned to hear practical, real-life solutions for healthier living through good nutrition.

Dishing up nutrition is brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness.

Slow down, you move too fast.

You got to make the morning last.

Just kick him down.

Good morning, everyone.

You're listening to Dishing Up Nutrition.

I'm Darlene Kvist, licensed nutritionist.

And today's show is brought to you by Nutritional Weight and Wellness,

a company that provides well-researched nutrition education and counseling.

You know, I think everyone knows that for years,

doctors have told us that having high cholesterol causes heart disease.

But, interestingly, today's cholesterol researchers are saying the exact opposite.

So there is so much confusion and misinformation about cholesterol that for years we were even told that eggs would

raise our cholesterol. And we know for sure that eggs do not raise our cholesterol.

Cholesterol, get that word right out.

So today we want to dig into this cholesterol story, and I have said over and over on

dishing up nutrition, that I come from a family with lots of heart disease, so I continue

eat and exercise to support my blood vessels in my heart.

So I want to share my understanding of the cholesterol story.

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