Tips To Having A Lower Cholesterol Diet From Dr. Sam Robbins
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You could eat a bowl of oatmeal, a handful of walnuts or a baked potato topped with a heart healthy margarine to lower your cholesterol and you could also stay off medications.
Soluble fiber found in oatmeal helps reduce your low density lipoprotein (LDL), the bad cholesterol. Kidney beans, apples, pears, psyllium, barley and prunes have soluble fiber. To reduce the absorption of cholesterol in your intestines eat foods with soluble fiber.
Absorption of cholesterol in your intestines can be reduced by eating soluble fiber. Your total and LDL cholesterol can be decreased by eating ten grams or more soluble fiber a day. You would get 6 grams of fiber from eating 1 cups of cooked oatmeal. Adding fruit like bananas will add another 4 grams of fiber. Cold cereal made with oatmeal or oat bran gives you fiber as well.
Research shows walnuts can significantly reduce blood cholesterol. Walnuts that are rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids, help keep blood vessels healthy and elastic. Almonds and other nuts do the same thing. Only eat a handful since nuts are high in calories.
Eating fatty fish that is high in levels of mega 3 fatty acids can lower your cholesterol according to researchers. You can lower your blood pressure and the risk of blood clots by eating omega 3 fatty acids. This helps your heart.
To get heart healthy benefits it is recommended by the Food and Drug Administration to eat 2 tablespoons of olive oil a day. You can get olive oil into your diet by adding it to a marinade, by using it to saute vegetables or mix it with vinegar as a salad dressing. When you are basting meat use olive oil rather than butter. Olive oil contains a potent mix of antioxidants that can lower your “bad” (LDL) cholesterol but leave your “good” (HDL) cholesterol untouched.
In order to reduce LDL cholesterol by more than 10 percent use margarine, orange juice because they are fortified with plant sterols. When you drink two 8 ounce glasses of sterol fortified orange juice you will get the 2 grams of plant sterols you need for results.
You should think about cutting back on the types and amounts of fat you eat before you make other changes in your diet. Fats will raise your cholesterol. By eliminating fats in your diet you will improve your cholesterol levels and overall health.
For additional info or queries in regards tolower cholesterol diet please send all messages to Dr. Sam Robbins
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