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From Penn State News: UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penny Kris-Etherton, distinguished professor of nutrition at Penn State, has accepted an invitation to join the Science Board of the President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition. Her three-year term on the Science Board will begin on Jan. 1, 2014.

By Jennifer J Brown, PhD, Everyday Health Staff Writer

Matt Ito, PharmD, is the president of the National Lipid Association for a very good reason. He has inherited a dangerously high cholesterol condition called familial hypercholesterolemia, or FH, which affects more than 600,000 people in the United States.