Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food. ...Hippocrates

Saturated Fat Sources: List of Foods High in Saturated Fat and Total Fatty Acids (beef, pork, chicken)

More list of saturated fat food sources: Milk and milk products and egg (milk, cheese, egg, cream)

The following links also have dietary information related to lowering cholesterol:

Cholesterol: good or bad for health?
Cholesterol: benefits and how to raise HDL cholesterol level
More food stuffs high/low in cholesterol
Foods of animal origin high in cholesterol- USDA
Foods low in cholesterol content - USDA
Plant food that help lower cholesterol
List of food totally free of cholesterol
Cholesterol content in seafoods (tuna, salmon, shrimp)
Cookbooks for low cholesterol diet

Fruits and vegetables moderate lipid cardiovascular risk factor in hypertensive patients

References

Denke MA. 2006. Dietary fats, fatty acids, and their effects on lipoproteins. Curr Atheroscler Rep. 8(6):466-71.

Grundy S.M. 1989. Monounsaturated fatty acids and cholesterol metabolism: implications for dietary recommendations. Journal of Nutrition. 1989 Apr;119(4):529-33.

Hodson, L., Skeaff, C.M., Chisholm, W.A.2001. The effect of replacing dietary saturated fat with polyunsaturated or monounsaturated fat on plasma lipids in free-living young adults. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 55: 908-915.

Saturated fat food sources list adapted from USDA National Nutrient Database Reference, Release 18.

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