Sentences with phrase «butter raises our cholesterol»

red meat and butter RAISE cholesterol.

Not exact matches

«Several studies found that coconut oil — which is predominantly saturated fat and widely touted as healthy — raised LDL cholesterol the same way as other saturated fats found in butter, beef fat and palm oil,» said the American Heart Association advisory, which published in the journal Circulation.

Ghee's purported benefits are myriad: it contains butyric acid, a short - chain fatty acid found in dairy products, and acts as food for colonocytes, the cells of your colon (meaning it's good for the digestive tract); it doesn't seem to raise cholesterol in the same way butter does.

You will notice that I am not recommending stick margarines which were once recommended as a substitute for butter but that was before we knew that the trans fats (listed as either «hydrogenated» or «partially hydrogenated» oils) that are used to make margarine solid raises bad cholesterol (LDL) and lowers good cholesterol (HDL).

The paper cites seven clinical trials in which coconut oil was found to raise LDL «bad» cholesterol just as much as butter, beef fat, and palm oil.

Consume plant and vegetable fats and oils, like olive oil, canola oil, avocados and nuts, instead of butter and other sources of saturated fat, and avoid trans fats (like those in some margarines, packaged cookies and crackers), which, like saturated fat, can raise LDL («bad») cholesterol levels.

Although butter, cheese and other dairy products can raise cholesterol levels in some people, HDL values tend to increase to a greater extent than LDL (22).

Today the question of whether butter is better has been raised along with the thoughts that saturated fats may not be as bad as believed, that sugar may be the culprit when it comes to heart disease and other maladies, and that the cholesterol you eat doesn't necessarily translate into the cholesterol in your blood.

We need to eat more butterfat from pasture - fed animals, more lard from pigs raised outdoors, more eggs from pastured - poultry, and more shrimp and other seafood rich in vitamin D. And we need to recognize the demonization of butter and similar healthy foods for what it is — a ploy, bolstered by the phony cholesterol theory, that has convinced Americans to substitute imitation foods for the nourishing foods of their ancestors.

According to the advisory, coconut oil is 82 percent saturated fat, and studies show it raises LDL «bad» cholesterol as much as butter, beef fat or palm oil.

It raises blood cholesterol levels just like butter, and causes arterial damage.

Coconut oil was found to raise total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol (the «bad» kind of cholesterol shown to be correlated with a higher risk of heart disease) more than safflower oil and beef fat, but less than soybean oil and butter = maybe not so good.

The fat is saturated cocoa butter, and is one of the few plant fats that's actually bad for us; it raises our cholesterol.

Reduced fat peanut butter has just as many calories as the full - fat natural nut butters but instead of being a healthy dietary fat (that our bodies naturally need), these reduced fat nut butters contain added sugars, more sodium and hydrogenated oils which are unhealthy fats that raise bad cholesterol.

coconut oil, when compared with cis unsaturated plant oils, raises total cholesterol, HDL - C, and LDL - C, al - though not as much as butter does.