FOODS THAT LOWER BAD CHOLESTEROL

This is the final installment in our series on cholesterol, here I just want to highlight for you some foods you can eat to help lower bad cholesterol. Do you remember LDL? That’s your bad cholesterol. Today I want to show you some heart friendly foods you can include in your diet, while removing some bad ones! So if you want to reduce your risk of developing heart disease please read on and I promise you more power because knowledge is power.

Do have a wonderful day.

1.       Whole grain Oatmeal:

If you are serious about reducing bad cholesterol, the key is to start with a healthy breakfast, and they don’t come much healthier than whole grain rolled oats, nutritionists estimated that two servings of whole grained oats a week can lower your bad cholesterol by approximately 5.5% in six weeks. The key to this is a substance called beta-glucan that absorbs LDL which your body then excretes.

2.       Red Wine:

Yet another reason to drink up! Thank you science! On a serious note it turns out that red wine is another cholesterol buster. A study from a Spanish university has established that red wine can reduce cholesterol by about 12% in about 3 months. Now the bad news, you must drink in moderation, this means no more than 30cl a day for men and 15cl a day for women. Anything more and the wine becomes a health problem and not a cholesterol buster. Sorry.

CHOLESTEROL: WHATS IT ALL ABOUT?

You have probably heard this many times, “my cholesterol is too high”, this an all too familiar term in our modern life. People are constantly being diagnosed with high cholesterol or being told to watch it, so we all become scared of cholesterol. It must be some evil force stalking us, choking our system from the inside!

To be honest with you, my knowledge of cholesterol was like every ones else’s –close to zero!  All I knew was that it was bad and killed people! Then I heard something unbelievable, there is good and bad cholesterol! I was stunned. No it’s got to be some scam I thought, so I decided to do some digging around and this is the result.

This piece will give you the information you need to know and it will help increase your knowledge of cholesterol. What it is, the good and bad types, foods that increase and reduce them and why you should know your blood cholesterol levels. Read this piece and I promise you will move beyond the hype and fear to find out what you need to know about cholesterol, why you should be concerned and whether it is as bad as they say. Knowledge is power, read this and build some serious power!

Happy reading.

WHAT IS CHOLESTEROL?

Basically it’s a fatty wax like material that is found in your blood. It is produced in your liver and helps your body to produce hormones like estrogen, testosterone etc. it’s also help you process vitamin D and also produce bile, which helps you digest fat. So it serves a purpose in your system, there are basically two types of cholesterol, let’s call them good and bad cholesterol.