Why does Cholesterol doesnt kill animals?

Question

Why does cholesterol doesn't kill a lion or wolf who eat fat and meat all the times. I have never heard of animals having heart attack & clogged arteries due to high cholesterol etc.

Answer 1

Well, actually there was a case of an animal in a zoo having a heart attack, (cardiac arrest).

This is because wild animals eat, and THEN they exercise (in there own way). They burn it by either running from larger animals or playing. Zoo animals normally laze around all day!!
Makes sense doesnt it?

Answer 2

No worries I won't yell. You don't know until you ask right? The fact is that the milk industry does hurt cows and is directly related the veal industry. Please note that what I am about to say is on a general basis only and does not imply that all farms or all of the farming industry follow these exact processes. In order for a cow to produce as much milk as the farmer wants, they are usually hooked up to machines (not the old farmer sitting on a stool variety you think of) and they are milked around the clock, to the point that their utters become excrutiatingly sore. As well, in order to be able to produce milk at all the cows must be consistently impregnated. When the baby is born the mother is lucky if its a girl because she will stay around for a while. When she is old enough to have babies of her own, she'll be impregnated too and have to go through the same tortuous existence. If the baby is a boy, he is taken away from her right away. She will holler and whine endlessly for her child, sometimes searching the field when she's allowed out. What the mom doesn't know is good however, because her son is somewhere locked in a cage so small he can't even stand up so that his muscles stay soft. In a few months he'll be slaughtered to produce veal. And then when the mom is past her prime and can no longer produce milk, she too is sent to the slaughter house. Hope that answers your question!

Answer 3

because animals that eat meat eat lean meat, or game meats which are lean. they may also eat a lot of plants. humans eat animals that were grown to be fattened up like chickens, turkeys, cows etc, humans drink cow milk. no other animal that I know of drinks another animals milk. Plus humans eat pizza, tacos, chips, tons of butter etc. also humans eat alot of sugar whose molecules knick the arteries. when the arteries get nicked, fats circulating in the blood can fill into the nicks and start building up like plaque. lots of plaque will narrow the artery walls and can cause all sorts of problems, including heart attacks, increased blood pressure etc. Plus animals tend to be more active physically than humans and therefore, whatever fats they ingest, they can burn it off eaily through activity. humans right now are very sedentary as a whole and the fat that gets stored is bad.

Answer 4

Lion's life expectancy is 20 years. Wolves live to be 16 at most.
How old are humans when cholesterol becomes an issue?

Those animals also have to be fit, they run after their prey instead of driving SUV's to the local fast food drive through.

Answer 5

Firstly, cholesterol is necessary because it forms part of the cells' membranes. Carnivore animals eat just enough meat to satisfy their appetite, and humans nowadays eat things that aren't just meat or plants, because that's the way we have become. If we didn't, we would be as healthy as lions and wolves.

Answer 6

The animals digesting cholesterol from their food do not live long enough for it to become a problem. Also animals are still as active as nature intended unlike we lazy humans.

Answer 7

Probably cause they don't live long enough to actually develop those diseases. Their food is actually far healthier than ours. Think of it, they're not driving to McDonald's every evening picking up an Super-Sized Extra Value Meal. They catch their food on the hoof, and they also only eat what they need. They also go long periods of time on occasion without eating anything.

Answer 8

We probably wouldn't get it either if we ate the food we are supposed to. If you look at countries like Japan who eat very healthily, they do not have heart disease etc on the scale of the UK and America. Animals don't drink, smoke and eat macdonalds!

Answer 9

In short, animals don't live long enough to. Our pets do live long enough to die of diet-related/organ failure problems.

Humans didn't used to die of cholesterol-related complications or cancer in the past in the same numbers because, like animals, they used to die when they were still quite young.

We have conquered "external" causes of death (we don't get a bit old and slow and die of starvation, like animals) and now we hang on till our hearts/other organs/cancer pack in!

Answer 10

cos they run around all day long and maintain lower cholesterol levels. also they don't live long enough for vascular disease to affect them.