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It's recommended that adults get about 20 to 35 percent of their total daily calories from fats and less than 10 of that percent from saturated or trans fats. And, really, even less if you can help it. You want to get most of your fats in the unsaturated form and very few from either saturated or trans fats. So the way to get these good fats or the unsaturated fats would be by eating nuts, oils (such as olive, canola, peanut oil). All of those are great ways to get your unsaturated fats.

And the dietary recommendation for cholesterol is to limit your cholesterol intake to less than 300 milligrams per day. And so that sounds like, oh, that's pretty easy, right? Well, there's about 200 milligrams of cholesterol in one egg! So you can see that it's very easy to eat high levels of cholesterol in a typical Western diet. And so, the guidelines are really to limit your cholesterol intake because your body already makes all of the cholesterol that it needs.