bacon fat, goose fat, chicken fat, duck fat--all healthy fats.
Your cholesterol probably won't go up in the absence of high levels of insulin. Eating cholesterol has no relationship to our blood serum cholesterol numbers; cholesterol is mostly manufactured in our own livers. And especially for women, there's no proof at all that high cholesterol numbers mean a thing! For women over 65, the
lower the total cholesterol number, the higher their risk of heart attack. Funny how the media doesn't report that, eh? But it does advertise cholesterol-lowering drugs plenty.
Those animals fats are BEST for your health if you buy your animals free-range, hormone-free, and your bacon nitrate- and nitrite-free.
Extra virgin olive oil is good too--either for dressing or to cook with, cold-pressed canola oil is good, flax oil is fine if it's real flax oil (comes in a dark bottle and has to be refrigerated), but don't cook with flax oil.
Here's an easy to read short piece on dietary fats:
http://www.stumptuous.com/fat.html