Peter's Principles - Nutrition
Meat and Cholesterol
Does a lean cut of red meat have less cholesterol than a fatty cut? Fatty meat has about the same amount of cholesterol as lean cuts, since the concentration of cholesterol in fat and lean tissue is the same, 20- to 30-milligrams per ounce.
Cholesterol is a fat-like substance found in all cell membranes and nerve fibers of animals. The reason to avoid fatty meat, or at least to trim all the visible fat, is that it is rich in saturated fat, which stimulates the body's production of cholesterol even more than dietary cholesterol does.