For years we heard that a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet would keep us healthy and help us lose weight.
And many of us jumped on the bandwagon, eliminating fat and high-cholesterol foods from our diets. Well, unfortunately, we were doing it all wrong.
Instead of eliminating fat completely, we should have been eliminating the bad fats, the fats associated with obesity and heart disease and eating the good fats, the fats that actually help improve blood cholesterol levels.
Before we examine the good fats and bad fats, lets talk about cholesterol.
Cholesterol – Its been ingrained into our brains that cholesterol causes heart disease and that we should limit our intake of foods that contain it, but dietary cholesterol is different than blood cholesterol.
Cholesterol comes from two placesfirst, from food such as meat, eggs, and seafood, and second, from our body. Our liver makes this waxy substance and links it to carrier proteins called lipoproteins.
These lipoproteins dissolve the cholesterol in blood and carry it to all parts of your body. Our body needs cholesterol to help form cell membranes, some hormones, and Vitamin...
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