As with cholesterol, you need just the right amount of triglycerides. High triglyceride levels increase your risk of heart and blood vessel disease. Cholesterol and triglycerides are both lipids, but have very different shapes. Cholesterol is made up of connected rings of carbon atoms and also is called a âsterolâ.
Toadstool Geologic Park in northwestern Nebraska. Some of the best-known badland formations can be found in Canada and the United States. In the U.S., Makoshika State Park in Montana and Badlands National Park in South Dakota together form a series of extensive badland formations. Among the Henry Mountains area, about 1500m above sea level, Cretaceous and Jurassic aged shales are exposed. Theodore Roosevelt National Park is a United States National Park composed of three geographically separated areas of badlands in western North Dakota and was named for U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.
The Badlands in the western part of the state receive less rain than locales farther east. (Photo: Thinkstock/Comstock/Getty Images ) South Dakota, 380 miles long and 210 miles wide, ranks as the 17th-largest state in the union. With its considerable size comes notable geographic variation in terms of weather. For instance, the famed Badlands, Black Hills and Mount Rushmore in western South Dakota have different climactic characteristics than the ...