How To Lower Cholesterol - A Look At Food With High Cholesterol

You probably will be interested in looking and understanding the high cholesterol food and how it will affect you, if you are concern about getting high cholesterol or already have high cholesterol.

Usually, the food that are high in fat are probably high in cholesterol as well. The favorite food from the fast food joint are usually one of those culprit, usually greasy, fatty or deep fried. The heavy and greasy foods are not only high in cholesterol, they are also high in saturated fat. This is the type of fat that come from animal product, will increase the level of LDL or bad cholesterol. If you consume too many of these food, your cholesterol is bound to rise in proportion to these food you eat.

It is important to know that the problem is not simply the cholesterol itself. It is important to understand how much saturated fat is in the food that you eat. It is important because the liver will produce more bad cholesterol and triglycerides to attempt to digest these fats that is eaten.

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 good example in this category is coconut oil. Coconut oil is a form of vegetable oil and is completely free of cholesterol. Thereby in theory it is labeled as "cholesterol free" or "low cholesterol". However, for those who don;t know, coconut oil is high in saturated fat, if fact the saturated fat in coconut is so high that it will definitely cause a problem to the cholesterol level.

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.

In general avoiding foods with animal products, will be a good choice. Processes foods in terms of pastries and cookies also contain high level of saturated-fats.

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