Monounsaturated fats, which are liquid at room temperature, lower LDL and raise HDL. They are found in most nuts, avocados, olives, and oils such as olive, canola, and peanut.

Polyunsaturated fats, also liquid at room temps, lower LDL and raise HDL. These fats can be found in fish and soybean, cottonseed, corn, and safflower oils.

Saturated fats, solid at room temperature raise both LDL and HDL. You can find these fats in butter, red meat, ice cream, whole milk, cheese, chocolate, and the meat oil and milk of the coconut.

Trans fats are solid and semi solid at room temp. They raise LDL, and decrease HDL They also raise triglycerides which is another bad thing. They can be found in most commercial baked items, most margarine's , deep fried food, most fast foods, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, and vegetable shortening.

These are percentages of the seperate types of fats found in the items listed.This chart is copied from The Harvard School of Public Health.

Oils/Saturated/Mono-unsaturated/Poly-unsaturated/Trans

Canola-7-58-29-0

Safflower-9-12-74-0

Sunflower-10-20-66-0

Corn-13-24-60-0

Olive-13-72-8-0

Soybean-16-44-37-0

Peanut-17-49-32-0

Palm-50-37-10-0

Coconut-87-6-2-0

Cooking Fats

Shortening-22-29-29-18

Lard-39-44-11-1

Butter-60-26-5-5

Margerine/Spreads

70% Soybean Oil,Stick-18-2-29-23

67% Corn&Soybean Oil Spread, Tub-16-27-44-11

48% Soybean Oil Spread, Tub-17-24-49-8

60% Sunflower, Soybean, and Canola Oil Spread, Tub-18-22-54-5