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Hi - there's a little chart of cholesterol levels for meat, chicken, and seafood towards the bottom of this page web page

The American Heart Association recommends that you limit your average daily cholesterol intake to less than 300 milligrams. Probably even more important here is your daily intake of saturated fat - for a 2,000-calorie diet, this shouldn't exceed 20 grams (9 percent of caloric intake). A person's saturated fat intake (and, interestingly) NOT their cholesterol intake is what's been found to affect their blood cholesterol levels.

A single skinless chicken breast has one gram of saturated fat. Most seafood has no saturated fat. Plant proteins have almost zero saturated fat. In comparison, a 3.5 oz serving size (which is smaller than what most people actually eat) of lean ground beef has 7 grams of sat fat, and pork spare ribs have 12 grams.

So the crockpot recipe of 65 mg. of cholesterol is actually about as low as you'll get using skinless chicken breasts, and would leave you with more than 200 mg. to spare for the rest of your daily intake.

- Heather

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