NOTES:   

1)    Most foods, even those "bad for you" can be eaten occasionally.

2)    Triglyceride lowering diets must avoid sweets as well as fats, and limit the total calories.

3)    Dietary cholesterol has some importance, especially if kept very low - but it’s the dietary fat that primarily affects the blood cholesterol levels (and cancer risks).

4)    The sugar intake is important for weight loss (total calories) and treating high triglycerides, but has very little if any impact on the blood cholesterol.

MEATS/FISH    Processed meats, luncheon meats such as salami and bologna (unless fat free), most pork products (bacon, sausage, ham), turkey and chicken fat and skin (and probably dark meat), fatty fowl such as duck and goose, hot dogs (unless virtually fat free), fast food hamburgers - especially with mayonnaise and cheese, organ meats, canned fish packed in oil.

EGGS    More than 4-6 per week.

GRAINS    Doughnuts, breakfast pastries (such as Danish), sweet rolls, commercial products with dried whole milk and eggs, any baked goods cooked with shortening (and sugar).

DAIRY    Whole milk, 2% milk, 1% milk, cream, butter, buttermilk, ice cream, whole milk products such as pudding, yogurt, most cheeses, nondairy cream substitutes made with oils.

OILS/FATS    Butter, saturated fats, hard margarine, tropical oils such as palm or coconut, peanut oil, lard, regular or even "low fat" salad dressings, most gravies (try using flour and water instead of fat), bacon drippings, mayonnaise, cream sauces.

VEGETABLES    Avocados are delicious and full of fat - they need to be regarded as a fatty food. Almost all other vegetables are low in fat. (Starchy vegetables such as corn and peas are high in sugar content).

FRUIT    Coconuts and their products.

BEANS    Beware what you cook them in. Commercial baked beans are often a problem. (Lima beans).

NUTS    Avoid whenever possible - maximum one tablespoon daily.

TREATS    Pizza, fried snacks like potato chips, most chocolates and candies, (jams, jellies and syrups), "hydrogenated" peanut butter, whole milk puddings, ice cream, milk based sherbets. (Sugared drinks, barbeque sauces and alcohol are a problem for patients with high triglycerides).