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Cholesterol Guidelines, Daily Allowances and PrecautionsSaturated Fat Guidelines, Daily Allowances and PrecautionsMORE Warnings and Precautions about Saturated Fat and Cholesterol guidelines and daily allowancesEver wondered how much cholesterol is OK to consume in your diet? How much cholesterol is too much? How much saturated fat is too much? How much cholesterol or saturated fat is too little? HERE ARE THE RECOMMENDED SATURATED FAT AND CHOLESTROL GUIDELINES AND DAILY ALLOWANCES TO ASSIST YOU IN WORKING OUT YOUR LOW CHOLESTROL DIET- That is, to help you work out a low cholesterol diet that will help reduce your blood cholestrol levels: CHOLESTEROL Guidelines and Daily Allowance: The Australian National Heart Foundation advised that all people should restrict total cholestrol consumption to no more than 300 milligrams a day, that's their cholesterol guideline for daily allowance. The University of Texas, USA, in discussing those with high cholestrol, suggests a limit of 200 milligrams a day. I suspect going below 100 milligrams a day may run risks with your health, as cholesterol is necessary in our blood for good health to be maintained, but the liver can apparently produce cholesterol when it is absent from the diet, so zero cholesterol should be fine, provided your liver is working well. Will you ever achieve a zero cholesterol guideline? Inconceivable, cholesterol exists in our food chain, in so many different foods. We may be able to limit our cholesterol daily intake, but I think that's about the best we can do.
If you are like me, then you probably wont want to sit down and work out an exact daily allowance every day of saturated fats and cholestrol and calories in the foods to be consumed that day. What I do is: For my main meal of the day - restrict intake of a particular food, when that food is more than 10% fat by weight. If it is above 15% in fat by weight, I will just pass it by unless it is that rare occasion when I really do want it more than anything else (which is really quite rare). For all my other meals, I use low fat margarine thinly spread onto bread - if I'm having bread - and basically consume anything that's low or no calorie ( you see, I have to lose weight as well ). But that's me, I'm not a food counter sort of person. I prefer to work out which foods I can consume in abundance, which ones are good to avoid, and all the other foods are in moderation. This paragraph is for the more technically minded. Essentially, if one consumes 1,200 calories (4,800 kilojoules) per day, then the maximum amount of saturated fat allowed is 10 grams (0.35ounces). 1,500 calories (6,300 kilojoules) - 13 grams (0.45 ounces). 2,000 calories (8,400 kilojoules) - 20 grams (0.7 ounces). 2,500 calories (10,500 kilojoules) - 27 grams (0.9 ounces). 3,000 calories (12,500 kilojoules) - 33 grams (1.15 ounces). 3,500 calories (14,700 kilojoules) - 39 grams (1.36 ounces). 4,000 calories (16,700 kilojoules) - 45 grams (1.58 ounces). Essentially, for every 100 calories (420 kilojoules) you consume, you are allowed about 1 gram (0.035 ounces) of saturated fats. For a lot of people, an ounce or 28 grams a day of saturated fat brings the morgue to the refrigerator door. So little saturated fat, but so deadly in the long run. I suspect that saturated fat could be cut out of a diet, provided other safer fats were included. If blood cholesterol was too low, then saturated fats could most likely be used to boost the cholesterol to a more healthier levels. Fat is essential for normal brain function I believe, as the brain is largely made of fat. Science is Limited in it's understanding of cholesterol and saturated fats and how they alter our blood cholesterol.The final cholestrol daily allowance / guidelines precaution is this: It has become obvious to me, that although we are at a point where we can often make definite beneficial changes in our cholestrol levels through adjusting our diet, that science is a long way from fully understanding the relationship between diet and cholestrol. Cheese is a brilliant example of this. By all accounts cheddar cheese should push our cholestrol levels ups. Yet our bad hdl cholestrol levels for some reason remain largely unaltered by it. Fact is, the scientists don't know why. As the scientists can't tell us why cheddar cheese is safe from a blood cholestrol perspective, it is possible that cooking the cheese or altering it in any other way, may in fact make it unsafe. Until the why is known, the only safe way to eat it may be as it comes out of the packet or out of the refrigerator. It is conceivable that other foods thought to be dangerous may turn out to be safe; it is also possible that some foods thought to be safe may contain something that makes it unsafe - for the most part, the science of cholestrol is preoccupied with cholestrol and saturated fats in foods and the increase or decrease of blood cholestrol as a result of consuming the cholestrol or saturated fat. The science and research of cholestrol has a long way to go.
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