How to Lower Cholesterol - A Look at High Cholesterol Food
submitted: 2008-04-08 06:32:59 |
by: Meng
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If you are worried about getting high cholesterol or already have high cholesterol, you will be probably interested in food that is high in cholesterol and how it will affects you. You may want to know as these food will have an impact on your cholesterol level.
Of course, many of the foods that are high in fat are also high in cholesterol. This includes a lot of the greasy and fatty foods that many people are fond of picking up from their favorite fast food joint. Many greasy and heavy foods not only contain high cholesterol levels, but also have a high amount of saturated fat. Saturated fat, the type of fat that is found in many animal products, will raise the level of your LDL (or bad) cholesterol. If you eat too many foods that are high in saturated fat and cholesterol, your own cholesterol levels are also going to go up.
At the same time, however, you should know that it is not the cholesterol alone in foods that is the problem. The more important thing to look at is the amount of saturated fat that is in the food you eat. Saturated fat is responsible for causing your liver to make more LDL cholesterol and triglycerides as it attempts to digest it.
Understand this, you will now know that food that are cholesterol free does not mean that is will make a huge difference to your cholesterol levels, especially if the product is high in saturated fat, the live will continue to make the bad cholesterol to digest the saturated fats.
One example of a food that would fall under this category is coconut oil. Coconut oil is a vegetable oil, so there is no cholesterol in it, and therefore could be labeled in theory as being "low cholesterol" or "cholesterol free." Unfortunately for the uniformed consumer, the amount of saturated fat in coconut oil is so high that it can definitely cause a problem for your cholesterol levels.
So food that are labeled "high cholesterol" would no just mean that it has high level of cholesterol. Instead, it may just contain only substances that will increase the amount of (LDL) cholesterol in our vascular system. And saturated fat is one of them
The following table will give you an idea what's on the label and what does it mean to you. This is to help you with you next shopping trip. - Label with "reduced fat" meant it has 25% lesser fat than "normal label" - Label with "fat free" meant it has less than half of a milligram of fat per serving. - Label with "low fat" meant it has less then 3 grams of fat per serving. - Label with "low cholesterol" has less then 20 milligrams of cholesterol and less then 2 grams of saturated fat. - Label with "cholesterol free" do not contain cholesterol but do watch out the saturated fat level.
If you want to exclude certain foods in your diet to help lower the cholesterol. You can avoid animal products and processed foods like cookies and pastries, these are usually high in saturated fats.
About the Author
My cholesterol level used to be more then 300, I've lower it naturally without medication in 60 days. Read my story at How to Lower Cholesterol Naturally
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