The level of blood cholesterol is the indicator that many people know today and try to follow it, because its increase is fraught with the development of atherosclerosis, ischemic heart disease, and heart attack in the future. Changing your diet, you can achieve the normalization of cholesterol, for this you need to limit products that increase cholesterol.
Fats in animal meat - the cause of high cholesterol
It is important to learn the basic rule: saturated fats of animal origin contribute to increasing cholesterol, and plant unsaturated fatty acids reduce the level of lipids. Therefore, the consumption of animal fats should be sharply limited. They are particularly abundant in the entrails of animals:
- kidney;
- liver;
- brains.
Egg yolk contains a high level of cholesterol, so a week you can eat them no more than 4 pieces. In addition, it should be remembered that some products contain so-called "hidden" fat. For example, in low-fat doctor's sausage cholesterol is more than in lean beef or pork. It is necessary to remove visible fat from meat.
Dairy products: fatty and low-fat
Products that increase cholesterol in the blood - fatty dairy products:
- whole milk;
- cheeses;
- sour cream;
- cottage cheese.
You can use their fat-free analogs. Cholesterol also increases with the use of mayonnaise and butter, so instead recommend using low-fat yogurts or vegetable oils.
Vegetables and alcohol
Vegetables by themselves do not contain fats, with high cholesterol they are even useful. But if you fry or simmer them with meat, they absorb animal fats and become a real source of cholesterol. Therefore, they need to be fresh or cooked separately from meat products.
Non-milk cream substitutes are foods that are banned in high cholesterol, as they contain palm and coconut oils rich in saturated fats. Alcohol also leads to
Seafood with high cholesterol
Products that increase "good" cholesterol are fish dishes, which are recommended to be cooked several times a week. They contain useful polyunsaturated fatty acids. However, one should be selective here. For example, shellfish and shrimp themselves do not contain much fat, but they are the source of cholesterol, the same applies to the liver and caviar of fish. All these are foods that are harmful to high cholesterol, and they can be consumed only occasionally and in small amounts.