High Cholesterol Foods - Are They the Major Reasons for High Cholesterol? Part 1

High cholesterol foods should be avoided mostly and should be restricted in your diet, whether you already have been diagnosed with high cholesterol or not. You may be affected and not know, because there may not be any major obvious symptoms.

This article is Part I of a 2-Part Series on high cholesterol foods.

Here is a list of the most common high cholesterol foods:

Fast food and junk food

Fast food and junk food are usually high in cholesterol, salt, calories and sugar. Some very bad fats called trans fats are usually found in fast food. Trans fats are by-products of hydrogenated oil. They behave like saturated fats when they get in the body. They clog up the human arteries and cause plaque to build up contributing to heart disease and stroke symptoms.

Some people believe that if they exercise more they can eat fast food or junk food. That's off beam. Exercise will not provide the results you want on its own without diet changes and healthier eating habits.

Fast food does little by way of providing nutrition. They contain all the things that contribute to raising your LDL cholesterol level. Bear in mind that fast food restaurants are not thinking about your nutritional needs when they prepare these foods. Just one meal from a typical fast food restaurant can contain all the total fat and saturated fat quantities experts recommend you have for the day.

How then do you eat your other two meals in the day without consuming too much fat? By the way the excess fat just stores itself in your body and possibly around the arteries. Dangerous.

Now you can understand why fast food and junk food are a major class of high cholesterol foods.

Cheese

Generally, cheese is high in cholesterol. So use genuine low-fat versions if you want to eat cheese. Cheese should be eaten on occasion, not as part of a lifestyle. If you have healthy cookware that enables you to de-fat cheese and other family foods automatically, then you can eat your cake and have it!

Soya versions of cheese are much healthier. Tofu too is.

Milk

Milk is another of foods high in cholesterol. This is because cheese high in the types of fat that produce cholesterol too. Full-fat milk to be precise is, so semi-skimmed and skimmed milk are much better options. Soy milk and rice milk are great replacements.

Summary

Conclusively for Part I of this series, high cholesterol foods should be limited in your diet and many of them can easily contribute to raising your LDL ("bad") cholesterol levels, and they are one of the major reasons for high cholesterol in your body.

This article is continued in Part II of this 2-Part Series.

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