cholesterol

[Connemmara]

Hi I have been told my cholesterol is a bit high and I have done a bit of research on the internet and look out for foods with hydrogenated fats.

Now I recently bought Groundnut oil - to fry (when I do) not very often - anybody oil or foods with NO hydrogenated fats. thanks for you replies

[coccinelle]

You need to google mono saturated oils. These lower bad cholesterol. Foods with omega 3 are good too.

[vesperalley]

Although hydrogenate fats are bad and they are banned in a lot of countries.. i dont honestly think that you will find them in may oils, i think they are used more frequently in biscuits and pastry and peanut butter... it helps keep the food moist... where as oil is already liquid.! Surely you need to be looking at saturated fat, rapeseed oil is low in saturated fat and high in mono unsaturated and poly unsaturated, plus it has the benefit of not having a strong taste, unlike ground nut oil which quite often i use to add to the taste!!

If you still in doubt ask your doctor to recommend a nutritionist ! thats what they are there for!

[coccinelle]

sorry that should read google mono UNsaturated oils!

[theonlyone]

Just take statins ..

[roguepink]

I would seriously consider using benecol or flora pro-activ spreads, the research proves they lower cholesterol and my dad's doctor actually recommends it to him, because all you need is a slice or two of bread and the spread and it lowers your cholesterol.