Is this true? I have read these things on-line but wonder if they are true.?

But half do have high cholesterol.

People are also improving their diets, eating more fruits and vegetables, and fewer processed foods. Transfats are being reduced in products all around the country and around the world, which reduces LDL and raises HDL.

Some of the LDL cholesterol in your blood can and DOES get into blockages in coronary arteries and cause heart attacks.

What kind of odds do you think are good ? 50/50 ?

The lowest risk of heart attack is from people who do multiple health interventions, including lowering their cholesterol.

Playing Russian Roulette with a 6 bullet revolver, which is safer, using just 1 bullet in a chamber, or having 3 or 5 bullets.

Heart disease is no different. Reduce as many risk factors as possible, and increase your chance of survival.

I have read some similar reports. But I did some research when my dad had his heart attack. It seems to me that as a society we are taking better care of ourselves, preventive medicine, I believe they are calling it. I think the risk factors are high cholesterol and smoking. Lowering your cholesterol helps but doesn't guarantee you wont have one. I really think that some people are gonna have a heart attack no matter if they smoke or not . They say that there is a gene that determines if you will have a heart attack, and another for cancer, and so on. But I don't think anyone knows for sure.

Yes it is true