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Originally Posted by Machiavelli

Diet has little to do with causing high cholesterol, but a healthy diet can be a part of controlling it once it has developed.

Certain foods have types of fat that raise your cholesterol level.

• Saturated fat raises your low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol level more than anything else in your diet.
• Trans fatty acids (trans fats) are made when vegetable oil is hydrogenated to harden it. Trans fatty acids also raise cholesterol levels.
• Cholesterol is found in foods that come from animal sources, for example, egg yolks, meat, and cheese.

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/...BC_Causes.html