Yesterday and today I read news articles on how good cholesterol is bad for us and can work to clog our arteries.....  so just then I came upon this article.  I WISH THEY WOULD MAKE UP THEIR MINDS!  I honestly believe that some who write articles don't know or are deliberately feeding us bad information.

Now here is the thing.... my husband and I were told we were on the verge of diabetes many years ago.  We both started taking Emu Oil.... I cut my cholesterol down..... My husband stopped taking them, saying its too expensive for both of us to take them....  he got Diabetes.

'Good' cholesterol may be key to preventing diabetes

MELBOURNE researchers will artificially raise levels of "good" cholesterol in diabetics, in a first human trial aiming to stop patients with "pre-diabetes" progressing to the full-blown disease.

While the link between heart disease, stroke and cholesterol have long been known, researchers are starting to uncover that "good" HDL cholesterol may also protect against diabetes.

Almost a quarter of Australian adults have either diabetes or the lifestyle-related impaired glucose metabolism condition known as "pre-diabetes".

Heart disease and stroke are the biggest complications for diabetes, and the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute has joined an international race to find a new "good" cholesterol-raising drug as the first treatment for both diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Head of Baker IDI's Metabolic and Vascular Physiology Laboratory, Prof Bronwyn Kingwell, said diabetes upsets the balance the between the protective HDL particles, which scavenger artery-clogging fats deposited by the "bad" LDL cholesterol particles.

"People don't die of diabetes, they die of heart disease. They get complications in the blood vessels of their eyes, heart and brain,'' Prof Kingwell said.

"We have good drugs to lower LDL cholesterol, but we don't have drugs that can raise 'good' cholesterol effectively.''

The proof-of-concept study will use the experimental drug RVX-208 to raise HDL levels in 20 patients by just 5-10 per cent over four weeks.

Prof Kingwell said the drug worked by increasing production of high quality "good" cholesterol.

These newly created HDL particles may help improve glucose control for diabetics through its effects on pancreatic cells and muscle, which are the body's major sites of glucose utilisation.

This has the potential to prevent or delay the progression from pre-diabetes to diabetes.

The research follows a breakthrough five years ago that found "good" cholesterol could be used to control blood sugar by imitating the effect of exercise on muscles.

"This is an out-of-the-box new angle,'' Prof Kingwell said.

"Muscle is the major site of glucose disposal in the body.

Read more @ http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/good-cholesterol-may-be-key-to-preventing-diabetes/story-fneuzlbd-1226813339864



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