Stress and diet is the real problem. Not cholesterol. Cholesterol is a response to stress and diet. Blaming cholesterol is like blaming the police for all the crimes cause they are always there after the crime has been committed. The police aren't the problem, they are a response to the cause of the problem. 

One in 12 in military has clogged heart arteries

(Reuters Health) - Just over one in 12 U.S. service members who died in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars had plaque buildup in the arteries around their hearts - an early sign of heart disease, according to a new study.

None of them had been diagnosed with heart disease before deployment, researchers said.

"This is a young, healthy, fit group," said the study's lead author, Dr. Bryant Webber, from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland.

"These are people who are asymptomatic, they feel fine, they're deployed into combat," he toldReuters Health.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/28/us-military-heart-idUSBRE8BR0I220121228