The Cholesterol War Is Over (Here's Who Won)

In 2006, researchers in Dallas found a woman who broke everything we thought we knew about cholesterol. She was 32 years old. A healthy aerobics instructor. Normal liver, normal kidneys, no health problems. But when they tested her blood, her LDL cholesterol came back at 14. Not 140. Fourteen. To put that in perspective, the average LDL cholesterol in a healthy adult is around 100 to 130 mg/dL.…