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.
1 doctor agreed: HDL good, LDL bad: High density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL) is protective and low density lipoprotein cholesterol (ldl) is a risk factor for heart disease. Total cholesterol is more or less a sum of these two values plus a contribution from triglycerides. See this site for more info.