There is some pretty good ranting and raving on this
website about LDL.The excerpt from the Framingham study
addressed total cholesterol.The MRFIT study characterized
361,662 men aged 35 to 57 and clearly shows a connection
between total cholesterol and incidence of heart attack.If
you lower your cholesterol from 240 to 200 you have cut your
probability of a heart attack in half according to MRFIT.
IMHO,total cholesterol does matter and telling people not to
sweat high cholesterol is doing them a tremendous disservice.
In the end,of course,we must all make decisions about what we
believe about the stuff we read.