MedLab with Doris

God Abeg o… This one serious o

Just so you know, Low-Density Cholesterol (LDL-Cholesterol) is known as a BAD cholesterol.

The most common reasons why your LDL-cholesterol is High is because of:

1) Your Diet:

You Eat foods high in
A) Saturated fats, examples:
•Palm oil
•Fatty red meat (beef, goat meat, ram)
•Skin from chicken/turkey
•Processed meats (sausages,suya with extra fat)
•Butter and margarine
•Full cream milk
•Fried foods (Ankara, puff-puff, fried yam)
•Oily soups (egusi, Ogbono)

B) Trans fats, examples:
•Some biscuits and cookies
•Meatpie, doughnut, cakes
•Instant noodles
•Sharwama & fast food
• Fried foods from reused oil.

C) Excess Sugar & Refined carbs, examples;
•Soft drinks
•Sweet snacks
•White bread
•White rice
•Garri, fufu, semo (when eaten in excess)
•Surgary yea, pap, custard

2) Lack of exercise:
Not being physically active.

3) Being Overweight or Obese.

When last did you do a Lipid Profile to check your cholesterol level???

Oya, take mic 🎤….why are you scared of needles???