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Change Your Diet To Lower Cholesterol Immediately Many people these days are concerned about their selection of food to reduce the cholesterol level. According to experts, a particular amount of cholesterol is required by the body. However, an excess of cholesterol level can cause severe health dangers. If you are suffering due to high cholesterol level then to begin with, focus more on your eating habits. The recent research has proved that by bringing down the LDL cholesterol level one can turn down the risk of heart disease. As an initial step, reduce the consumption of cholesterol and concentrated fats through your regular diet. A concentrated fat badly affects the overall body conditions. It affects the LDL cholesterol level of the body. Remember, there is a very close link between concentrated fats and cholesterol levels. For every 1% intake of concentrated fats, LDL cholesterol level rises up to 2%. Reducing the intake of saturated fats can reduce the cholesterol level to some extent. Importantly, substitute the concentrated fats with mono-saturated fats in the regular diet regime. A mono-saturated foodstuff includes salad, hazelnut, avocado, almond, vegetable oil, nuts, olives, fish oil, soybean, peanut butter and many more. These are highly advantageous to health. The major variation between polyunsaturated fat and mono-saturated fat is in their molecules. In case of mono fats, they are connected by single molecule and poly fats are connected through many. As compared to single bonds, multiple bonds are very unstable. They result in free radical break and oxidative stress. This ends up in most chronic sickness. Margarine and vegetable oil are excellent sources of poly fat substances. Poly fats are particularly unstable if at all treated or even when kept exposed to heat, air, moisture or light. Furthermore, it is vital to be aware of the mess that may happen when preparing a food with oils like corn, canola and soya bean.
These oils almost allow radicals to run freely in the body. By bad luck, many restaurants make use of these inexpensive oils to prepare foodstuffs. Customers wrongly consider it healthy and fit when they listen “foodstuffs prepared in vegetable oil”. The odorless and clear oils that you notice on grocery stores are primarily put through high temperature processing then deodorized and bleached. They are just developed oils and add to the progress of heart disease. Fast foods or most processed food stuffs are loaded mainly with omega6 fatty acids. Before 20th century, people consumed mainly palm oil, coconut, and butter. In fact, there were almost no heart problems. However, these days, as oils like canola and corn are much cheaper to produce, they were considered as healthy and safe and started to substitute the other oils. Remember, a high intake of carbohydrates can lessen the HDL cholesterol level and increase the serum triglyceride levels. Before You Start Taking, Or If You Are Taking Lipitor, Crestor, Zocor, Mevacor, Provachol, Altocor, Lesacol... or any other statin medication - STOP!! Click Here for the "Cholesterol Lie" as seen on CNN, ABC, NBC... Related Articles: |
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