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Low Cholesterol Diet

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THE WAY TO LOWER
CHOLESTEROL IN THE
BLOOD
Easy Slimming Diets

Main Meals
Light Meals
Appetizers
Slimming Soups
Modern diets
rightly recommend those with an over-high cholesterol level to reduce
their intake of saturated fats. They suggest that fish, poultry and
vegetable should replace fattier meats such as pork , lamb and beef.
They also suggest increasing polyunsaturated oils in the diet. This is
sound advice (especially when they are combined with monounsaturated
olive oil), but only when taken with enough vitamin E. Without
increasing vitamin E the result can lead to a heart attack.
Slimming Entrees
Slimming Salads & Side Dishes
Modern Diet
Our modern diet often lacks vitamin E for example it is
discarded when flour is refined and when oil is chemically extracted.
This is another instance of the need to choose unrefined foods in this
case whole meal bread and cold-pressed oils. A few of the foods in which
vitamin E is found are lettuce, parsley, spinach, mustard leaves,
potatoes, leeks, carrots, cucumber, brown rice and honey.
It is not yet fully recognized that drastically reducing the intake of
saturated fats alone could actually encourage the metabolism to produce
even more cholesterol to compensate for the imposed reduction. The
metabolism needs the added help of fibre and vitamin-rich foods,
together with plenty of exercise, to prevent it from going into
`overdrive' and producing even higher cholesterol levels.
The Body's Key
The body's key to coping with cholesterol is lecithin. This is an
emulsifier that works rather like washing-up liquid in a sink of dirty
dishes; it breaks the fat up into smaller particles and disperses it.
Lecithin helps cholesterol to pass efficiently through the arteries to
do its essential work. Without it the particles of cholesterol are too
large to pass through, so the level of cholesterol rises and some of it
becomes lodged in the arterial walls, causing arteriosclerosis.
Circulation becomes impaired as there is less and less room for the
blood to flow through, and greater effort has to be exerted by the
heart. Sufferers from heart disease characteristically show an increase
in blood cholesterol and a drop in lecithin, so it is obviously vital to
supplement the diet with additional lecithin.
Lecithin granules are easily obtainable and are not difficult to use
(capsules do not supply a large enough quantity). The results will be
very beneficial and greatly help to lower blood cholesterol. Two
tablespoons of lecithin taken daily will reduce cholesterol in the blood
by breaking the fats down so that they can be absorbed through the
arterial wall and utilized by the tissues. Lecithin also increases the
bile acids, which in turn decrease blood cholesterol.
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