Afraid to Eat Seafood Because of High Cholesterol? Fool on You!

It is annoyed me when people said they will have high cholesterol level because of eating seafood. It is so damn wrong!

Let me explain.

Your body makes all the cholesterol you need in the liver. You get high cholesterol by eating too many foods high in saturated fat and trans fat.

What raises your cholesterol level is saturated and trans fat, not cholesterol from food. If you eat too much and gain weight, however, your weight gain will raise your cholesterol.

Seafood has unsaturated fat. It has no trans fat—ever. And no saturated fat, or else it couldn’t swim because it would be stiff as a board.

So, don't be afraid to eat seafood. Three ounces of crab has 90 milligrams of cholesterol—just 30% of the recommended daily value. And it has only 1 gram of fat, which is unsaturated. Other good-for-you cooked fish and seafood have about the same in 3 ounces: cod 85 milligrams, halibut 85mg, lobster 85 mg, salmon 85mg, yellowfin tuna 85mg.