Your doctor has been telling you right Gibson, but do you know which foods contain saturated fats? According to the CDC, foods such as egg yolks, regular cheese, fatty meats, and dairy desserts, and tropical oils such as palm oil are loaded in saturated fats. The reason why he's telling you to stay away from saturated fats is because your cholesterol level may rise even higher if you are consuming a lot of foods high in saturated fats. Those foods will actually raise your Low-density lipoproteins (LDL) which is the bad cholesterol. You want your LDLs to stay low. When your LDLs are high, they do nothing but clog up your arterial vessels. The cholesterol will become hard and in the small arterial vessels, it will be called arteriosclerosis and in the large arterial vessels, it will be called atherosclerosis, so either way your arteries are affected and damaged and can become hard which will in turn damage your blood supply. The other type of cholesterol which is High Density Lipoproteins (HDL) is the one that you want to be high because it actually carries cholesterol back to your liver from the other areas of your body. A great way to help you raise the good cholesterol HDL is to exercise.
Please check out these resources. They offer a lot of information about saturated fats and cholesterol.
https://medlineplus.gov/ldlthebadcholesterol.html and https://www.cdc.gov/cholesterol/prevention.htm Hope this helps.
Your doctor has been telling you right Gibson, but do you know which foods contain saturated fats? According to the CDC, foods such as egg yolks, regular cheese, fatty meats, and dairy desserts, and tropical oils such as palm oil are loaded in saturated fats. The reason why he's telling you to stay away from saturated fats is because your cholesterol level may rise even higher if you are consuming a lot of foods high in saturated fats. Those foods will actually raise your Low-density lipoproteins (LDL) which is the bad cholesterol. You want your LDLs to stay low. When your LDLs are high, they do nothing but clog up your arterial vessels. The cholesterol will become hard and in the small arterial vessels, it will be called arteriosclerosis and in the large arterial vessels, it will be called atherosclerosis, so either way your arteries are affected and damaged and can become hard which will in turn damage your blood supply. The other type of cholesterol which is High Density Lipoproteins (HDL) is the one that you want to be high because it actually carries cholesterol back to your liver from the other areas of your body. A great way to help you raise the good cholesterol HDL is to exercise.
Please check out these resources. They offer a lot of information about saturated fats and cholesterol.
https://medlineplus.gov/ldlthebadcholesterol.html and https://www.cdc.gov/cholesterol/prevention.htm Hope this helps.