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If you are eating at McDonalds every day or have a large fat intake through your normal, you are in danger of having high cholesterol. 
What is cholesterol? 
Cholesterol is a waxy substance that is found in certain foods and is produced from your liver. 
The cholesterol helps build up your cell walls so that they have enough durability to pass molecules between the cells and outside tissue. 
Cholesterol actually creates bile salts that are able to help digest and eat up fats. 
Even if you never had a Big Mac or a Burger King whooper, you body would create enough cholesterol to make your body work like it supposed to do. 
So cholesterol is a good thing, but too much of a good thing can turn bad. 

Too much cholesterol can lead to heart diseases which could result in a heart attack, high blood pressure, or a stroke. 
The level of cholesterol in your body can rise to point that the cholesterol in your body will be more of an enemy than a friend. 
To understand where these levels are derived from you have to know a little more about what cholesterol is. 
Cholesterol is a type of lipid. 
A lipid is the name for fats found throughout the entire body.  That means that most of the most of the foods you eat also has cholesterol in it. 
The only foods that are devoid of cholesterol are fruits, vegetables, and grains.  All others have at least a trace amount of cholesterol or a very high amount. 
Fast food and other fatty foods have enough to severely raise your cholesterol level. (…)

How to Test for High Cholesterol? (…)

High Cholesterol and Children

There is more and more evidence that high cholesterol and the build up of plague in the inside of your arteries can begin at childhood.  This would lead to heart disease and other coronary problems later down the road as an adult. 
Heart disease is still responsible for four hundred and fifty thousand deaths a year in the United States.  Thirty percent of this number had a heart related disease or a heart attack below the age of sixty five.  A good percentage of these patients have children that could be at risk for an early heart attack, stroke, or death. (…)

Heredity plays a role in high cholesterol.  Your genes can influence your LDL by affecting how fast it is made and removed from your blood.  There is one particular form of inherited high cholesterol that will often lead to early heart disease.  It is called familial “hypercholesterolemia” and can play a role in 1 of 500 people. (…)

Lowering your LDL Cholesterol with Niacin
Have you got your lipid profile checked yet?  If not, you need to do so as soon as possible. You may wonder why, and what this is all about. (…)