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The Correct Answer: B) Margarine For the past few years, supermarkets have been selling margarines enriched with substances called plant sterols and stanol esters, which reduce blood cholesterol. More recently, orange juice has been enriched with plant sterols and stanol esters. Plant sterols and stanol esters are chemically similar to cholesterol. They inhibit the body's absorption of both dietary cholesterol and the cholesterol found in bile, which is released from the gallbladder to help digest fat. You need to eat about 2 tablespoons of enriched margarine a day to get the 3 grams of plant sterols and stanol esters needed to lower your blood cholesterol. A daily intake of two 8-ounce cups of orange juice enriched with 1 gram of plant sterols per cup is similarly effective. Helpful as stanol- and sterol-enriched products seem to be, the possible long-term effects of consuming plant sterols and stanol esters are unknown. Until more information is available, these products are recommended only for people who need to lower their cholesterol. .
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