CNN Sanjay Gupta MD November 17, 2013 12:58:00
Supports healthy cholesterol levels. in fact, diet is a major source of cholesterol. but it's not the only source. your liver produces about 1,000 milligrams of cholesterol each day. cholesterol binds proteins to travel through the bloodstream creating high density protein or hdl, that's the good stuff. and low density protein, ldl, the lousy stuff. hdl is the cleanup crew. they pick up the blood vessels and take them back to the liver to be processed. but sometimes there's too much ldl. >> you eat more of the common bad fats, it actually causes your liver to produce more bad cholesterol. >> b...