Low Cholesterol Diet to Keep your Cholesterol Level Low
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Genetic factors and diet are the two most common reasons for high cholesterol levels in your body. Though, you may not do anything about what you inherited genetically, you can always control your diet to keep the cholesterol level low, as required by your body.
A high cholesterol level leads to building up of a waxy substance cholesterol plaque in your arteries that obstructs the blood flow. Gradually, it leads a dysfunctional organ and may be a heart attack as well. A planned cholesterol diet is essential to keep it in control. In fact, a minimum level of cholesterol is always required for your body as it helps in repairing cell membrane, and in producing some useful hormones. However, after a certain level, it is dangerous to have high cholesterol level in your body.
Cholesterol Diet
Plan your diet and see what foods can help you lower your cholesterol level. There are some foods that can lower your cholesterol; while others can help it not rising beyond the required level. Generally, you should reduce fat intake and avoid oily and fried foods. Since fats are the main sources of calories, replace the saturated fats intensive diet by natural foods such as fruits and vegetables, and more of complex carbohydrates.
Low Cholesterol Diet
Certain foods are very good for low cholesterol. You should have fish, at least three times in a week. A few kinds of sea fish contain omega-3 fatty acid that helps you lower blood cholesterol. Reduce your fat intake. A low cholesterol diet should include more of complex carbohydrates such as whole grains and potatoes. These are excellent sources of energy and these take care of the benefits that you might miss because of avoiding fats.
While purchasing food items from market that are cooked, baked or roasted, read the label carefully and see there should not be any saturated oils. In addition, have lots of natural fruits, such as fruits or vegetables. These are rich source of fiber that your body requires for many reasons. Apples, carrots, brown rice, barley and legumes form a very good low cholesterol diet. A widely recommended herb psyllium also helps you reduce cholesterol level, if taken daily.
You can also have soya to control cholesterol level in your body. Research has shown that soya milk helps in reducing cholesterol. If possible, have at least 2-3 glasses of soya milk everyday. However, there are a variety of soya sweeteners such as for ice creams or desserts. Read out the sugar content and the amount of calories in those items and select the one that don’t have too many calories.
In true sense, a low cholesterol diet does not require wholesome changes in your diet; rather, it only requires using alternative methods of preparing food. For example, if you are in the habit of having salads, try having potato salad. Cut a few boiled potatoes into thin slices and soak these into plain, low fat yoghurt. Serve these with fresh chive, or even with onions. This is a good low cholesterol diet that is an excellent source of carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals.
High Cholesterol Diet
There is no such defined or standard high cholesterol diet. As long as you take planned diet and take enough of vitamin C, even a diet that is high in cholesterol too is not bad for your body. The problem arises when the excess of cholesterol is not balanced due to lack of vitamin C, or antioxidants. The high cholesterol level leads to arteries’ blockage, and heart related diseases.
If you see that your cholesterol level is higher than required, cut down on fats and oily foods, reduce the sodium content in your meals. A high cholesterol diet usually consists of meats, dairy products and foods that contain hydrogenated or saturated oils. Trans fats are particularly harmful for people who have high cholesterol. Many packed and processed foods that are available at stores contain trans fats or saturated oils, and you should avoid such products for a healthy body.
Even if you are taking required precautions with respect to your diet, ensure to have a decent intake of vitamin C. Have lots ofruits and vegetables as these are generally good antioxidants. Orange, lemon, papaya, cabbage and grapefruit are good sources of vitamin C.
If your doctor says that you should seriously avoid all fats and take minimum of salt, it means that you need to take such food items that have no cholesterol at all. Slowly, a cholesterol free diet helps you neutralize the high cholesterol level in your body. Some of the items that you can take are Orange Juice, Raw Melon, Seedless Raisins, Raw Watermelon, Boiled and Drained Asparagus, Apple, Banana, White Rice, Sweet Potato, Oat Bran, Spinach, Tomato, Cabbage, Cucumber, and Onion to name a few.
Garlic should be integral part of your cholesterol free diet since it is an excellent product for cholesterol control. Research has shown that a clove of garlic for 12 consecutive days starts bringing down the cholesterol level to normal.
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Help answer the question
can you give me some ideas for cholesterol diet recipes?
i need help please my mom and dad have cholesterol, and they like eating good meals, mom likes fish and sweat things, like chocolate…etc, dad likes more meat (every kind but he actually eats beef) , i want to offer them a meal that they will never forget without feeling that it's a kind of diet. and i want my mom to enjoy cakes and chocolate with us without freaking out. please please help me to find out THE recipes.
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16 Comments
August 26th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
your problem is that your are explaining everything in far too much detail
example
Monounsaturated fats are found mostly in canola, olive and peanut oils and foods made with these oils, nuts and seeds. These fats help decrease total and LDL blood cholesterol.
Polyunsaturated fats are found in oils made from sunflowers, safflowers, corn, soybeans, nuts, flaxseed and sesame seeds. These fats have been found to reduce total and LDL blood cholesterol levels, particularly when eaten as part of a diet that is lower in fat.
change to something like "The article explains the effect of monounsturated and polyunstaured fats and gives examples of the types of food they are in"
You can do drastic surgery like that on most of your explanation
August 26th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
You know if this was 5 different post or so, I might have read this. Yahoo Answers isn't the best place to post something that huge. Break it down more to several different post. Its too ahrd to read all that here. Sounds like alot of good information though.
August 26th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
I think your question(s?) is typical american diet propaganda. Its that looking for a magic formula principle or applying science in someway to allow us have our cake and eat it.
I'll tell you why I think American diets don't work really- your society is based around the car ; drive everywhere;people are in wall mart driving around the aisles in motorised trolleys..I even remember seeing healthy but fat kids being pushed in wheelchairs by their skinny parents in between rides in Disneyland. You don't actually use an awful lot of glucose or glycogen stores because each year you find a way of moving less and less as a nation so that if you decrease your glucose intake it probably isn't noticed. When we try your GI diets etc we often faint cos the level of glucose is too small for our more active lifestyles.The truth is any fad diet willwork because you fatigue of eating the same crap day after day and you lose your interest in food and eat less without realising it
My guess is the obeisity epidemic is a result of food science and is solvable by laws limiting saturated fat content and sugar content in food that was developed for pre WWII people who were on the verge of starvation and to whom a fat enriched diet was a lifesaver back then. Throughout history all countires have faced famine : thats why the english sent Sir Walter Rayleigh off to find potatoes , a source of carbohydrate. Nowadays we simply enrich our food…I seem to remember nearly everything you'd eat in the USA was sugar coated like the way you'd feed frosties to a kid who wouldn't eat..except this was adult food ! The obvious way to reduce fat is to produce foods lower in calories, fat and carbohydrates by law. Its soooo obvious but no one does it.
To answer your stuff about intermediary metabolism your talk about the graph of glucose levels versus time is interesting. The area under the curve is called the bioavailability ( absorption) of glucose as released from the foodsource. However glucose is a complex creature because its blood levels are influenced by insulin, adrenaline, glucagon, glycogen formation, the Km of enzymes such as hexokinase and glucokinase. Right enough a peak of glucose stimulates insulin release causing the conversion to fats and glycogen (immediate stores) and glycolysis…conversion to pyruvate in order to enter the Krebbs cycle in the mitochondria. Some people probably have more/better mitochondria than others and this might contribute to weight diffences.The basic evolutionary force you speak of is really survival of the fittest at maintaining blood glucose above 5 mmol in order to keep the brain from dying ( can only burn glucose) . Hexokinase, the entry enzyme of the liver where metabolism largely occurs, has a Km of 5mmol…this means as blood glucose falls below 5 mmol its intake of glucose falls to virtually zero.This conserves glucose for the brain. Similarly starvation, through release of growth hormone causes initially the consumption of protein ( heart muscle mainly) initially and finally the mobilisation of fat stores ( glycerol ->glucose, fatty acids to ketones which are usable by Krebbs cycle if L-Carnithine is present to transport in the fats) after about 3 days. We know an awful lot about this process of starvation mainly from hospitalised patients. The shock to the body of an operation often causes large amounts of adrenaline(epinephrine) and cortisol release that promotes internal catabolism of protein and to a lesser extent fat stores. Initially it may be possible to directly supply glucose via an intravenous drip but usually after a few days in order to prevent loss of heart muscle you need to supply a certain percentage of the calories as protein and fat ..I think roughly 30/30/40 ( fat/protein/glucose) in order to stop the loss of heart muscle from the metabolic shock. Its the same with diets…you do need a balanced diet in order to prevent the body thinking it needs to produce one food group to suppliment its lack of another foodgroup( fat/protein) and to maintain glucose levels. Yes, I concede the glycemic index is probably a good idea in the sense it promotes foods with a slow release profile for glucose and sustains blood levels of glucose more evenly ( your curve is more elongated and the peak is broader) but overall you need to reduce calories modestly across all 3 foodgroups and increase exercise to preserve muscle protein.
There is more. I lost 3 stone once in Weight watchers. My success , I perceived was down to the ability to estimate food more accurately in terms of their points system ( calories vs saturated fats) and the fact I weighed my food. It was extremely hard the first few weeks until I lost my stomach fat and after that it was easy. I formed the impression my fat cells in someway signalled my satiety centre but after you lost this fat store the signal strenght weakened ( less output from fat). I understand leptins actually do this , it was subsequently discovered and antileptin drugs may ultimately be the cure. Keeping off the weight was harder because, in my opinion, most foods you buy are artificially enriched with calories, sugars and fats and your basic western meal is enough calories for a whole day. I think governments limiting fats in foods is the only sane diet solution
August 26th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
"How do you explain those rail-thin people who eat nothing but fish and vegetables, and who yet somehow manage to rack up dangerously high cholesterol levels? They suffer from an inherited disorder, called familial hypercholesterol." High cholesterol due to a genetic condition in some people – a good diet will not help and so statins are then answer.
Statins – any of a class of lipid-lowering drugs that reduce serum cholesterol levels by inhibiting a key enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of cholesterol.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
that’s a lot of work. I started taking “cholest off”. seems to work. Don’t think doctors like it cuz they rather give you a drug with side effects to lower cholesterol.
August 26th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
I have found the most effective and safe way for me to lower my cholesterol is to take a natural supplement. About 4 months ago, I found CholestPROTECT… The results have been impressive.
August 27th, 2009 at 7:36 am
It is truth. Another problem with buying chicken at the stores, is realizing that chicken parts are THERE, because, often, the other parts of THAT same chicken had cancer. Seriously, cancerous parts get cut out, and the other parts of the chicken do get sold as parts.
I have seen turkey farms that did all those horrible things to the critters.
I have raised my own chickens, and found that, although I was raising them for the eggs produced, that chickens are really filthy to raise in even small numbers. Trying to keep conditions clean for my own chickens was a full time job! I loved having the fresh eggs, they were delicious! I stopped raising my own, for the fresh eggs, when I just could not keep up with how much fecal matter there was to deal with. I only had a few chickens! I had a great house for them, and kept it nice. So, if I couldn't stand just a few of them around, think what it must be like to do it for a living…….the more chickens you have, the more money you make. Dreadful problem.
August 27th, 2009 at 5:23 am
n 1707, a young girl was out strolling at night when she was pushed down a well. She fell to her death, landing on a metal rod, impaling her through the head. She stayed in that well for over 200 years, when in 1924 they destroyed it and her bones wererecovered. Now that you have read this, you must repost this on atleast 5 video’s before an hour is up, or she will find you when you are asleep, and impale you through the head with the same rod. Don’t test this, IT’S NOT A JOKE,IT’S VERY REAL
August 27th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
I did not see any results for lung studies. If you are having shortness of breath, your oxygen level and scan of your lungs as well as lung studies might not be a bad idea.
Psychologically are you anxious about something, how is college going, are you breaking up with a girlfriend, is your family going through changes?
The white tongue might be thrush which can happen after a good amount of antibiotic regimen.
FYI: Fasting blood Glucose level is 70-110
Edit: I am going for stress, if I was to make an educated guess. It could be something physical that is reacting to the stress. I say, see a therapist, if they deem it necessary consider seeing your doctor to start a medication regimine.
At least rule it out before considering all your systems are malfuntioning right now.
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August 27th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
I used to try to get plant sterols from my diet, but then i read that you have to drink like 3 and 1/2 glasses of soy milk or 25 tablespoons of soy margarine to get that!! That is a LOT of margarine for someone who’s watching their weight. Sterolyn gives me all that by only taking 2 capsules. Works for me.
August 27th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Thak You THat Really
Helped I Did That Diet For 8 Weeks
And My Cholestorel Really Dropped
Thanx I Couldnt Do It Without You
August 28th, 2009 at 4:25 am
Anything that enhances your health will enhance your sexual health, too. Partaking of wonderful, enjoyable food with the right someone is always stimulating too, as long as you don't overeat and get that too full groggy uncomfortable feeling.
August 28th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
i'm not going to strain my eyes to read all of that…
August 28th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
wow thanks for the video.
August 29th, 2009 at 8:25 am
wow. Looks like you had allot of thought to this. My thoughts to this. People have been drinking milk for positively centuries and millenia. If you like it, drink it. If you don't, don't.
August 29th, 2009 at 2:50 am
I drink whipping cream to lower my cholesterol.