Tuesday, January 8, 2008

What are the “good fats” that lower LDL cholesterol and decrease risk of heart disease


What are the “good fats” that lower LDL cholesterol and decrease risk of heart disease?

Heart Diseases - 3 Answers
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1 :
Unsaturated fats. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsaturated_fat You find them in nuts, seeds, fish, and eggs.
2 :
Eat a low-cholesterol, low-fat diet, which includes cottage cheese, fat-free milk, fish, vegetables, poultry, and egg whites. Use monounsaturated oils such as olive, peanut, and canola oils or polyunsaturated oils such as corn, safflower, soy, sunflower, cottonseed, and soybean oils. Avoid foods with excess fat in them such as meat (especially liver and fatty meat), egg yolks, whole milk, cream, butter, shortening, pastries, cakes, cookies, gravy, peanut butter, chocolate, olives, potato chips, coconut, cheese (other than cottage cheese), coconut oil, palm oil, and fried foods.
3 :
eat less cheese, eggs and red meat