Everyone has heard of the 'bad' cholesterol, but what's 'good' cholesterol?

Both genetics and the lifestyle play an important role in your cholesterol levels

Though a commonly used term, people often see cholesterol as an illness. It’s widely circulated news that cholesterol is blindly removed from the “naughty list” of foods, and that egg, butter, dairy products, nuts, coconut oil and meat are safe. According to an article published in The New England Journal of Medicine 2017, a study in Denmark analysed that parents who had stopped taking statins after reading such news had increased incidence of heart attacks and brain stokes, increasing the number of deaths. That had put all speculations of cholesterol being healthy to rest. 

However cholesterol isn’t all bad; there is