Key Foods to Avoid If Your Cholesterol Is High - If you want to lower your cholesterol, the very first step should be to start avoiding foods that are high in cholesterol. If you're constantly adding more cholesterol to your body, it'll be very hard to reduce your cholesterol levels no matter what else you're doing.Here are a few of the most important foods to start avoiding. ==> Livers, Hearts, Intestines Avoid eating any kind of animal organs. This includes chicken livers, hearts or bone marrow.Though these foods aren't frequently used in Western cooking, they're extremely common in Asian cooking as well as some South American dishes.Toast with butter is a staple of most people's breakfast. Many people also often prefer to cook with butter rather than oil, because it smells and tastes richer.Unfortunately, butter and margarine both have extremely
high cholesterol contents. If you're trying to lower your cholesterol, it's best to say "no" to butter and butter-replicas. ==> Processed Meats: Spam, Bologna, Sausages Processed meats are one of the worst cholesterol offenders in the standard American diet.Processed meats usually contain ground-up meat from all the parts of the animal that couldn't be used in other products. In other words, the fattest, dirtiest and least healthy aspects of the animal are what's packed into sausages, spam, etc.On top of that, processed meats are chock full of sodium and oils. In other words, processed meats are your worst enemy if you're trying to lower your cholesterol.Deep fried foods like French fries, Kentucky Fried Chicken and mozzarella sticks are also terrible for cholesterol.Deep fried foods work by essentially being dunked in oil (fat) and letting them sit there until they cook.