{"id":1188,"date":"2014-10-01T21:31:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T13:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2019-09-22T19:49:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T11:49:46","slug":"cholesterol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/01\/cholesterol\/","title":{"rendered":"Good cholesterol, bad cholesterol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the nation&#8217;s circulatory congestion is getting worse and worse, and mini-strokes occur with alarming frequency, it should not be too hard for doctors to agree on what medical intervention is needed&#8211;both urgent and long-term ones.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_507\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-507\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IRAIA-logo-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-507\" title=\"IRAIA thoughts\" src=\"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IRAIA-logo-2.jpg\" alt=\"IRAIA thoughts\" width=\"160\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-507\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IRAIA thoughts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>E.g. Public transport and bikes are HDL aka good cholesterol. Have more of them. Private cars are LDL aka bad cholesterol. Get rid of them. Build a robust economy like a healthy diet. Practice good governance like regular exercise. Problem is, this country&#8217;s economic managers are not real doctors and nutritionists. They are sales reps of chem food and drug firms.<\/p>\n<p>Still confused? Kaya nagka-hetot-hetot ang trapik, because many of us are still confused. Or in denial about bad cholesterol. #<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/junverzola\" rel=\"external nofollow\">Follow @junverzola<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you still in denial about bad cholesterol? Then prepare to get stuck in traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,196,89],"tags":[119,180],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-economy","category-governance","category-urban-life","tag-allegory","tag-urban-traffic","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1788,"href":"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/1788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}