Wait, You Mean Bad Cholesterol Doesn't Even Matter?

Remember all those years we spent worrying about our levels of LDL cholesterol, otherwise known as bad cholesterol?  Well, according to research conducted at the Heart Research Institute in Sydney, Australia and at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, that was a monumental waste of energy. What really matters, the research indicates, is the levels of HDL, otherwise known as good cholesterol. U.S. News and World Report tells us that the incidence of heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular problems was 40 percent lower in the one-fifth of participants in a major trial who had the highest HDL cholesterol levels, regardless of their LDL cholesterol levels.
Get the good stuff; Read an abstract of the study in the New England Journal of Medicine.