3 Amazing Super-foods That Lower Cholesterol
12/7/2011
When we eat indiscriminately, consuming animal fats from meat and dairy
products, drink a lot of alcohol, white bread, crackers, cookies and
soda, we'll be lucky to still be alive in twenty years. These all cause
your liver to produce as much LDL cholesterol it possibly can, and you
will certainly gain weight to boot. Or is
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These foods are exactly what spikes cholesterol levels, and brings many
other afflictions into the picture, like obesity, diabetes, and cancer.
To make matters worse, the fatter you become the harder it is to lower
your cholesterol because each pound of fat , in itself, increases LDLs
(the "bad" cholesterol) without anything else going on. So, losing
weight first should be the mission before trying to lower your
cholesterol. As it happens, a cholesterol-friendly diet overlaps
strongly with a diet to lose weight, so these two goals do work
together.
1) Soluble fiber – This group of foods acts as a brake on your body's
production of LDLs (low-density lipoproteins), the "bad" cholesterol.
They reduce the absorption of LDLs in your bloodstream by themselves
absorbing the LDLs and eliminating them. But not all of them. No silver
bullets here, just a few silver-tipped arrows–but they do work. The best
foods to eat in this category are: beans (all types), bananas, apples,
oatmeal, and oat bran.
2) Nuts – Fat is very important to your body's health. Contrary to what
some "experts" have said, it's pretty settled in the medical community
that high quality fats are essential for overall health, not just for
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maintaining cholesterol. Polyunsaturated fats are found in the
following: walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts, peanuts, pine nuts, pistachio
nuts. These are high calorie snacks, so take care to eat no more than a
handful a day.
3) Fish – In your quest for high quality fat, omega 3s are the highest.
These are found in most fish, but some have more than others. Fish oil
has omega 3 fatty acids that actually raise HDLs, the "good"
cholesterol, and reduce chances of a blood clot causing stroke or heart
attack. They have the added benefit of lowering you blood pressure.
Folks with existing heart conditions use fish as a staple to prevent
another or first heart attack. The fish with the highest percentage of
fish oil are: sardines, herring, lake trout, mackerel, albacore tuna,
halibut, and salmon.
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