“Cholesterol” is essential to life—a part of cell membranes, nerve fibers, hormones and other vital substances. A waxy substance classified as a lipid, it’s found in all animals, and thus in all animal products we eat. Many people think that all the cholesterol in their blood comes from the cholesterol they eat, which is called dietary or preformed cholesterol.

Most of the cholesterol is made by our livers. Excess cholesterol is excreted by the liver, but some is deposited in the walls of your arteries, where it is involved in the formation of plaque, thus contributing to atherosclerosis and possibly heart attack or stroke. High cholesterol is one of the major controllable risk factors for coronary heart disease, heart attack and stroke. As your blood cholesterol rises, so does your risk of coronary heart disease. If you have other risk factors such as smoking, high blood pressure or diabetes, this risk increases even further.

Bad Cholesterol

Fat and cholesterol are independent substances. Fat cells contain cholesterol, but no more than other cells do. Thus fatty meat has about as much cholesterol as lean meat does. All meats beef, pork and poultry, whether lean or fatty are high in cholesterol. Eggs too are high in cholesterol but are not saturated fats.

Good Cholesterol

Good cholesterol is HDL (high-density lipoprotein), which is assembled in the liver and circulates in the blood. HDL is good because it collects excess cholesterol from artery walls and elsewhere in the body and brings it back to the liver for reprocessing or excretion.

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