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Article: Fruits and veggies - good for our good cholesterol. (impact of vitamin C on HDL cholesterol levels)
- Article from:
- Agricultural Research
- Article date:
- July 1, 1995
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Heart specialists don't always want to lower cholesterol. In the case of HDL cholesterol, they like to see it go up.
The HDL particle vacuums up excess cholesterol from cells and returns it to the liver, enabling the cells to open their doors to the LDL particles. This prevents the LDL particles from hanging around in the arteries and hooking up with bad company - the oxidizers. When that happens, an artery-clogging plaque may form.
So Paul F. Jacques and colleagues at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University in Boston looked into whether increasing vitamin C intake could help.
They recruited 138 men and women ...