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How Sugar, Not Fat, Raises Your Cholesterol

by Dr. Donielle Wilson April 2, 2014
When you go to the doctor and get a cholesterol reading, you may be cautioned against eating high-fat foods. But very little fat from foods becomes cholesterol in your blood.

What produces cholesterol is rather the excessive consumption of carbs at any one time. The cholesterol and triglycerides in your bloodstream come not from consuming excess fat, but rather, from consuming excess glucose.

If you eat more sugar than you can use for energy, the sugar gets stored as fat. A sugar-filled diet also causes your liver to make more low-density protein ( LDL) cholesterol, the bad type, and less high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, the good kind, says Cleveland Clinic.