Cooked whole foods from the plant kingdom, however, still do contain significant amounts of usable, naturally occurring antioxidant nutrients such as vitamins, minerals and thousands of phytonutrients. They present a much greater challenge than cooked whole plant foods such as fruits, grains, vegetables, legumes, nuts and seeds. This is not a healthy scenario. I am defining refined foods as those that have undergone nutritionally detrimental processing. These foods contain and create large amounts of free radicals while offering precious little ability to deal with them.
Cholesterol only comes from animal foods.
Read ingredient lists on products so you can avoid these health destroying oils and other harmful ingredients. Free radicals are linked to heart disease and strokes. Free radical damage to the blood vessel walls can also contribute to blood vessel blockage. Animal products with the fat removed do not contribute cholesterol, but have higher concentrations of uric acid forming proteins which contribute to osteoporosis, gout, acid body chemistry, sickness, and aging in general. As foods age, they contain more free radicals than when they were fresh.