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The fats that make up our diet can be saturated or unsaturated, an easy way to remember the difference is that saturated fats are solid at room temperature and unsaturated instead are liquid.

To reduce cholesterol levels in the blood, is especially important to limit saturated fats, found mainly in meat and dairy products made with whole milk.

Unsaturated fats are divided into polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats are found mainly in the plant world and are less likely to increase levels of blood cholesterol.

In fact, there are tests on monounsaturated fats (olive, peanut, rapeseed oils) may even help reduce blood cholesterol, few saturated fats, but among them we can mention coconut oil, oil palm and cocoa butter (the last building block of chocolate), which act like saturated fats in the body, so it should be avoided.

The term hydrogenated vegetable oils that frequently appears on labels of foods, resulting from the hydrogenation is an industrial process for the manufacture of vegetable oils solid at room temperature, are therefore driven to saturation through this process despite being vegetable oils.

Hydrogenated oils are frequently used in bakery products, snacks, and to make margarine, it is very important to know that for more coming from the plant world are not recommended for diets designed to lower cholesterol, and neither are for general health therefore reduce is the smart choice when looking for a balanced diet or healthy.

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