Lower Cholesterol and The Food Fight
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011saturated fats in the blue corner is the “bad guy” that is found mainly in foods of animal origin and in the red corner is cholesterol bad boy of products of animal origin. And you’re stuck in the middle struggling to maintain their level of blood cholesterol as low as possible. Cholesterol or bad cholesterol “LDL and saturated fats such as cholesterol animal products, eating too much saturated fat greatly increase their level of LDL and can lead to heart disease. So the struggle, the struggle for food, changing your diet and reduce cholesterol.
One way to fight is to eat more soluble fiber, which reduces the absorption of “bad boy” cholesterol or low density lipoprotein (LDL) in blood. So relax with at least 5-10 or more grams of soluble fiber per day. For example, oats are a good start and really packs a punch. Follow this up with prunes, barley, pears, apples and bananas. To help you six grams of fiber per day is about one and half cup of cooked oatmeal. If you include bananas, fiber intake increased by four grams. And finally “bad boy”, you can use your oatmeal or oat bran cereal with cold.
In its response has nuts as your secret weapon to help reduce cholesterol in the blood of walnuts and almonds, for example, use that are rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids. In addition, to help reduce your risk of heart disease consider eating more nuts to keep blood vessels healthy. Use your secret weapon to date, with a handful of pistachios, pine nuts, walnuts, hazelnuts, these are factors that contribute to the fight against heart disease risk. But remember to stay on top in the battle to avoid salted nuts or sugar, not to exceed the daily dose that nuts are rich in calories. Nuts are also a good substitute for foods high in saturated fat. Then he struck again and replace the cheese and meat with a handful of nuts in your salad.