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In human nutrition—as far as regions where heart disease is a more common cause of death than starvation are concerned—animal fats are generally considered unhealthy due to their association with high cholesterol levels in the blood. Animal fat contains some cholesterol, but saturated fat (a large component of animal fat) stimulates cholesterol production in humans and so animal fat contributes in two ways to cholestrol levels. While elevated blood cholesterol levels have been linked to heart disease, it should be noted that there is no necessary relationship between cholesterol intake and blood cholesterol level. A properly functioning liverThe liver is an organ in vertebrates including humans. It plays a major role in metabolism and has a number of functions in the body including detoxification, glycogen storage and plasma protein synthesis. It also produces bile which is important for dige regulates the blood cholesterol level by storing and releasing as well as producing and excreting cholesterol as appropriate - primarily as bileBile (or gall is a bitter, greenish-yellow alkaline fluid secreted by the liver of many vertebrates. It is stored in the gallbladder between meals and upon eating is discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion. Bile salts act to so. Even veganIn its adjective form, vegan describes: people (who avoid all animal products), diets (plant-based), food (containing no animal products), and products (containing no animal products and not animal tested). As a noun, a vegan is a person who follows a vegs, whose dietary intake of cholesterol is by definition essentially zero, have cholesterol in their blood.
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