What’s the story on fat-free foods that contain cholesterol?

We’re trying to eat a mostly fat-free diet (and have had a spectacular reduction total serum cholesterol) but have noted nutrition labels showing zero fat but small amounts of cholesterol (e.g., in skim milk and fat-free yogurt). What is the relationship between those small amounts of dietary cholesterol and coronary artery disease? Thanks.

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Best Answer: Be aware that 80% of your cholesterol is manufactured by your body regardless of what you eat and you should focus on good (HDL).vs. bad (LDL cholesterol. Bad cholesterol comes from meat ,animal products and saturated & hydrogenated oils, The good cholesterol is from Olive, fish and seed/nut oils (except for Palm and Coconut oils). An accumulation of cholesterol called plaque on the interior of artery walls will narrow the opening, elevating blood pressure and possible stroke/heart attack should it continue.

4 Comments

  • jake696
    December 10, 2009 | Permalink |

    Read up on the Adlkins diet and learn about the myth of fat free. Fat free usually means ADD SUGAR and sugar turns into fat in your body and causes high lipid counts. Eating fats, oddly enough does not make you fat, or drive serum cholesterol up. I am not saying to go carb free…you need the carbs in veggies and fruits!

    But by reading about the Adkins diet you can gain a better understanding tof the fat metabolsim and the misunderstanding regarding “fat free”. Other diets like the South Beach may make more sense than Adkins.

    The one I get the biggest kick out of is fat-free salad dressing…they add a ton of sugar to get some flavor back…the sugar is the deadly stuff!

    Americans are getting more obese off of sugar in it’s varieties…like high fructose corn syrup than if everybody would just eat red meat every night!

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  • Lincoln6
    December 10, 2009 | Permalink |

    Be aware that 80% of your cholesterol is manufactured by your body regardless of what you eat and you should focus on good (HDL).vs. bad (LDL cholesterol. Bad cholesterol comes from meat ,animal products and saturated & hydrogenated oils, The good cholesterol is from Olive, fish and seed/nut oils (except for Palm and Coconut oils). An accumulation of cholesterol called plaque on the interior of artery walls will narrow the opening, elevating blood pressure and possible stroke/heart attack should it continue.

  • Tom
    December 10, 2009 | Permalink |

    Don’t be stupid ! ” FAT ” in animal products is beneficial to good health and a healthy weight , Vegetable ” FAT ” is the killer . so you can think you are eating healthy by eating salads but when you put on the salad dressing you will be coating the inside of your arteries with plaque . Cholestrol is not a problem in most humans and it does not clog arteries as they say . The only people cholesterol is a problem for is the pharmaceutical companies because it makes every cell in your body healthy plus it and the sun combine to make the worlds best defense against cancer and infectious diseases , vitamin D3 . We need cholesterol in much higher levels than what they want us to live on . A cholesterol level in the 200′s is too low to maintain good health and a healthy immune system .

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