You can get cholesterol from the foods you eat and your body also makes it. Your liver is making it now, as you are reading this, at a rate of about 50,000,000,000,000,000 molecules per second!

The 2 Sources Of Cholesterol:

Cholesterol from the food you eat.

Animal foods are the only way you can get cholesterol from food. Egg yolks, meat, poultry, seafood and dairy products - anything that can walk, swim or fly - contain dietary cholesterol. Foods from plants do not have any cholesterol, but foods with saturated and trans fats can cause the body to make more cholesterol.
Cholesterol made in your body.

If you never ate another cheeseburger again, you would still have a cholesterol number. That's because your liver makes enough for healthy body function. In fact, the liver makes about 1,000 milligrams of cholesterol a day. But sometimes the balance goes wrong and there is an increase in blood cholesterol. This may result from a genetic tendency to produce very large amounts of cholesterol in the body and/or from a poor diet.

 

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