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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.

It is important to know that high cholesterol food is not a problem by itself. It is more important to know how much saturated fat that was eaten. It is important because the liver will produce more bad cholesterol and triglycerides in order for the saturated fat to be digested.

Know that the liver will produce bad cholesterol to digest the saturated fat, eating food that are label “cholesterol free” will not help in cholesterol problem if the food also contain high level of saturated fat.

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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