September 24, 2017　=========

☆  cholesterol  コレステロール

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I’m interested to know why today’s word is in Katakana, and not a Japanese word. Do you know why? I always thought that Katakana words were borrowed from other languages, and an equivalent word didn’t exist in Japanese. Is that true for this word? If so, does that mean that cholesterol is actually a Western problem??

If so, why aren’t we all eating a traditional Japanese diet, and avoiding the heart disease problems related to high levels of bad cholesterol? I could find some research about Japanese cholesterol levels compared to other countries, but none of them were recent. They were from the 80’s and 90’s andRead more about Today’s Word: cholesterol[…]