"If you think about your vessel as pipes that have to bring blood to your internal organs - your heart, your brain, your kidneys - over time, [cholesterol] can create junk inside those pipes so that the blood flow is not as good as it should be. Then that can create situations such as heart attacks and strokes and kidney dysfunction," Avenatti said.
"Saturated fat can actually decrease your body's ability to clear out ... the bad cholesterol," explained Beth Auguste, a registered dietitian in Philadelphia and owner of Be Well with Beth. "Your bad cholesterol goes to your liver to get cleaned up and that's how you remove some of the cholesterol in your body. That saturated fat impacts your liver because it makes it so that you can't break down the bad cholesterol as much."
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