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Wrong, repeat it on another occasion. if youre excited about something, if you just saw me, your blood pressure shoots up, repeat it again and make sure it is okay. >>steve: youre the first member of the medical a team ive shared my numbers with. heres my cholesterol. tell me whether these are good or bad? >> make sure your total cholesterol is less than 200. yours is 174, absolutely perfect for someone like you. the next one we look at is h.d.l., the good cholesterol, cleans up your arteries. y...

Medical community and the patients are actually listening to this program, whether it has to do with the diet or the way weight or obesity, for the first time we see average cholestrol coming down below 200. thats fantastic news. believe me, we need some good news. when you took about cholestrol, the first thing that comes to mind, its heart attack and stroke and bad news. cholestrol is absolutely necessary, and we need it. its a building block of the human body. we need it for cell membrane and...

to a report by the commonwealth fund. the report looked at factors such as quality of care and access to care. but look at the cost. if you combine the per capita cost of the two nations on this list, netherlands and uk you still dont equal costs. they have been soaring long before object care and its continued to rise in the two years since it became the law of the land. in other words, like a lot of things with this president, he didnt cause the problem but hasnt fixed it either. rep...

To death and im going to eat myself to death. shell be 97 in october. >> soda is the number one source of added sugar in our diets. its not the natural shu gawr find in truth and milk. its added soda. back to what you were saying about you are thin you dont have to worry about it. megyn: i didnt put it quite that way. >> but for people who are thin. it is a problem it can raise your ldl, bad cholesterol levels. megyn: but in moderation shouldnt americans be able to make choices for themselves? e...

There is scientific data to show that this kind of supplement is as good as statins and what happens with a lot of patients who take them, they get a lot of muscle pain, one reason why they dont continue to take it. with this kind of extract you see that a lot less and there are patients that go on and take this and they are happy. most scientific data shows they can actually lower the bad cholesterol, ldl by 27%, so it does work. the big issue here is, because it falls under supplements, fda is...

"bat girls" and this one on screen, macarthur park, and last dance and love to love you baby. she was known to a new generation in part on her appearance on "american idol" in 2008. donna summer, dead of cancer at the age of 63. jenna: well, a new study on heart health is reversing a lot of what people thought they knew about cholesterol. heres a few facts for you. about one in every six american adults has high cholesterol, giving them twice the risk of heart disease as people with normal level...

High density, proteins, hdl. we always said that the ldl is the bad cholesterol and the hdl is protective and sort of protects you. you want your hdls low and your hdls high. this study looked at people genetically that had very high hdls and turned out they had the same risk of heart disease. as the general population. jenna: so now what? >> well, you know what? ldl, we have these drug statins and they have been great. they also declose inflammation and not just cholesterol they have been comme...

Doctors look at it as a real organ that secrets inflammatory process that can lead to heart disease and work on the liver, as the en -- at the entry of the liver, portal vain and, the ldl goes up and the good fat, hdl goes down and you end up with high triglycerides and it works on the muscles to increase the resistance to the insulin. what does that mean? diabetes, and the kidneys, visceral fat around the kidneys can come employees and make you absorb more sodium, high blood pressure. what do w...

to why, but one in particular is getting a much closer look. its about sugar. everybody knows too much is bad, but i have been surprised see just how bad. i did this investigation with cbss "60 minutes" and it begins with this pediatric endo kronologist who says were literally poisoning ourselves with sugar. >> is sugar toxic? >> i believe it is. >> do you ever worry that it just sounds a little bit over the top? >> sure. all the time. but its the truth. >> dr. robert lustig is a pedia...

cbs and 60 minutes and it begins with thepede a pediatric endocrinologist who said were poisoning ourselves with sugar. >> sugar toxic? >> i believe it is. >> do you ever worry that that just sounds a lillal over the top? >> sure. all the time. but its the truth. >> dr. robert is a pediatric endocrineologist and a pioneer in what is becoming a war against sugar. >> deep breaths. >> motivated by his own patients, too many sick and obese children, the doctor has concluded that sugar, mor...