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11 High Cholesterol Foods that We Must Avoid
Cholesterol is an essential part of your diet. After all, the body needs a daily allowance of cholesterol for proper functioning. Unfortunately, if you fail to regulate your cholesterol intake, this can make you susceptible to heart disease, stroke, and cardiovascular diseases. Thus, you need to keep your cholesterol intake within the recommended daily allowance.
Avoiding foods that are high in cholesterol is not easy; some of these foods might be part of our daily diet. If we cannot totally avoid them, we might as well consume these foods in moderation. Here are some of them.
1. Egg yolk
Eggs are not really considered as high cholesterol foods, but the egg yolk portion of it contains more cholesterol than your body needs
Most types of fried foods are high cholesterol foods, especially deep fried foods such as French fries, onion rings, fried shrimp, and so on. It would be hard to remember all the high cholesterol fried foods, though, so just to be on the safe side, you should consider saying goodbye to fried foods completely
Although you do not have to avoid meat completely, you do have to limit your consumption of the highly fatty portions of beef and pork. These portions include the tenderloin, the top loin, the brisket, the T-bone, the flank, and the rib-eye. Aside from that, you should also completely avoid organ meats such as liver and intestines as these will increase your risks of getting a heart attack.
Processed foods such as hot dogs, ham, bologna, and luncheon meats should be avoided because these are high in sodium and contains plenty of saturated fats.
All sorts of regular cooking oils have high cholesterol levels. Even if you choose the low cholesterol portions of meat, if you deep fry them in high cholesterol oil, they will still bring a lot of unwanted cholesterol into your body. Instead of using regular cooking oil, look for other alternatives such as olive oil or canola oil. Just make sure it’s not coconut and palm oil, which are also very high in cholesterol.
Whole-fat dairy products including milk and butter should be avoided, while dairy products with 2% fat such as yogurt and cheese should be consumed in moderation. It’s a good thing that most dairy products now come in low fat versions.
Most sweet treats are high in cholesterol, and also contain a lot of butter, oil, and shortening. When put together, these really do not benefit the body. If you happen to have a sweet tooth, then you need to make a sacrifice in order to enjoy a healthier life.
Duck or goose, especially their skin, should be completely avoided since they have excessively high levels of cholesterol.
Ice cream may be sweet and refreshing, but they are not very friendly to your body, especially to your heart.
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17 Comments
I admit, it's hard to avoid fatty foods... Good tips Yvonne
This is excellent , Yvonne.
Very true about trans fats. We need to avoid them , but looks like they always there, EH!
This is a great article.
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yes kath its really hard to avoid fatty foods because its so yummy
hi Nicole!!!thank you much...i really try to avoid it but i can really insist
so what should i eat then? hahaha nice and very healthy post Yvonne...
great info.
Great post Yvonne, i like the info, it serves as a reminder for me. thanks!
thanjs leny ,angel and Cool ayz.....
i can avoid all of the above except ice cream :) very good informative post Yvonne
THANK YOU PAT!!!!SAD TO SAY I CANT AVOID THEM BUT NOW IM TRYING
nice info
thank you for giving time to read my blog....
great info for this time of year thanks for the read
great information .