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Eating healthy food can help lower your LDL cholesterol level, and it may protect you from the damaging effects of cholesterol. You can raise your HDL cholesterol level by exercising, quitting smoking (if you smoke) and losing weight (if you're overweight).
Eating healthy foods usually lowers cholesterol levels. Here are some tips on eating smart:
Eat more fruits and vegetables.
Eat more broiled or grilled fish and skinless chicken and less fried meats.
Choose lean cuts (pieces of meat containing little visible fat) when you eat beef, pork and lamb. Also, cut down on the amount of meat you eat.
Eat a variety of fiber-rich foods, like oats, whole-grain breads and apples. Fiber helps reduce cholesterol levels. Fiber-rich foods can also help when you're trying to lose weight, because they make you feel full.
Limit your intake of saturated fats, like dairy fats (in ice cream and butter) and palm and coconut oils (in baked goods). It helps to read the labels on food packages. A label may say the food is low in cholesterol, but the food could still be high in saturated fats. When you see these ingredients on the package label: palm oil, coconut oil, partially saturated vegetable oil and hydrogenated vegetable oil, you know that product is high in saturated fat.
Limit high cholesterol foods, like egg yolks and liver. Eat no more than four egg yolks a week.
Use low-fat dairy products: skim milk, nonfat yogurt and ice milk.
Avoid eating fried foods.
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