1 Other than a mother dog or cat who eats the feces of her litter as a protection mechanism, poop eating is considered an abnormal (not to mention repulsive) behavior. 2  Dogs eat stool for a variety of reasons that can have either a medical or behavioral cause.
Conversely, low total cholesterol and high HDL cholesterol lowers the ratio and is good news. The goal is to keep the ratio below 5.0; the optimum ratio is 3.5. But even though this ratio can be a powerful predictor of heart disease risk, it is not used as a sole indicator for therapy.
Cholesterol Ratio. When your health-care professional orders your blood cholesterol levels to be checked, he or she will interpret and discuss the results such as your cholesterol ratio and total cholesterol numbers (HDL, LDL, and VLDL), and what they each mean.