Causes of High Cholesterol – What are They?
What are the causes of high cholesterol and how do we prevent these? In health literature you will find these main causes: • Heredity – you inherit the high cholesterol problem from your parents; that is through your genes. • From the food you eat – cholesterol is in food derived from animal sources. • Your liver – all animals that have a liver make cholesterol; so we make about 80% of our cholesterol in our livers. Note that the problem is not that we get cholesterol from all these sources. The problem is that the amount we have in our blood is abnormally high. What causes that.