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    Cholesterol High Foods

    Before you eat that delicious dish on your favorite restaurant, be certainly to ask the server how it was prepared. How about eggs, cheese and bacon? Hmmm... they certainly are wonderful at breakfast. What about steaks, cakes ice cream? Better think twice before putting them in your mouth. One of life's ironies is that the better it tastes the higher the chance it has high cholesterol content.

    If you have high blood cholesterol level it doesn't mean you should be a vegetarian. It means that you have got to control yourself from consuming cholesterol high foods. Cholesterol high foods have two main nutrients; saturated fat and cholesterol.

    Saturated fat is a variety that found mostly in animal products. They are responsible for elevating your LDL cholesterol or "bad" cholesterol level. It is one of the major reasons of having heart attacks. To make it simple, lessening the amount of saturated fat consumption in your body is a very necessary step in lessening your cholesterol levels. Stopping the consumption of saturated fat has no effect whatsoever (except in taste of your food). Your body produces all the cholesterol you ever need.

    You must recognize the value of "cholesterol free foods" because dietary cholesterol is hardly as injurious as the amount of saturated fats in your foods. They may be called cholesterol high foods or foods that have high cholesterol; as a matter of fact it's not the cholesterol content that the food has but it's the saturated fat which causes the liver to generate more injurious cholesterol.

    So that you may know, the liver generates four periods the quantity of cholesterol from our food intake. That is why saturated fat is more injurious than dietary cholesterol. Take for example the coconut oil, it may be cholesterol free but it's highly saturated which make the liver to produce more injurious cholesterol. Saturated fat also enhances the triglyceride levels and thickens the blood. In contrast, seafood contains cholesterol but is also has a protective fats that's called "polyunsaturated fats". It makes the liver produce less injurious cholesterol and more protective HDL cholesterol or "good" cholesterol.

    Keep this in mind that rather than worry regarding cholesterol high foods, you should worry about foods that has high saturated fats. Cholesterol high foods are foods that are high in triglycerides or saturated fats. Cholesterol high foods are mostly found in animal products. Also, you must avoid processed and ready foods. You may find them suitable in your fast-paced every day life; you must also be concious that these are cholesterol high foods and is also high in saturated fats.

    All in all, keep in mind that there may be cholesterol lowering medicines, they may have some side effects on your body. It is advisable that you take a clinically and scientifically proven cholesterol reducing supplement. It enhances your wonderful cholesterol and at the same time lowers the bad cholesterol without any side effects.

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