Cholesterol - How to Cut Out High Cholesterol Food

It is vital to decrease cholesterol in your diet if you are diagnosed with high cholesterol. The optimal way to get at that excess of cholesterol is certainly, to check out your high cholesterol food consumption, and then change it to reduce the amount of those foods in your diet.

Of course, you should replace them with healthier alternatives and even contemplate combining your diet changes with medication that can help the processing of those foods in your system. You can transform the way your entire system works with a few changes in your diet and by adding some healthy medication from your doctor.

Diets high in saturated fats are the main the cause of a high cholesterol food diet, therefore taking a look at the content in your diet of saturated fat is a great place to start. Consuming foods high in cholesterol also helps boost the level of cholesterol in your diet, obviously, but it is the saturated fats that in fact the most harmful in the way of high cholesterol food. It may sound puzzling at first, but with some consideration of the foods we eat which are high in saturated fats, it will become clear what the connection is. A cautious dietary change to lower the levels of both food types is advantageous.

Some of the most popular forms of high cholesterol food look innocent at first, but a closer examination of their content actually exposes a deplorable level of cholesterol. A single boiled egg, for instance, has about 225mg of cholesterol in it. Butter, cheddar cheese, ice cream, and cream cheese are all elevated in cholesterol, too.

While demoralizing to read, these are the facts. Other foods high in cholesterol include lamb and beef or steak; proteins add up to more cholesterol for your body. Taking a close look at the quantity of these food types in your diet can be a good class in controlling your food intake.

Staying away from high cholesterol food is one part of the struggle. The other part is adding more foods that are low in cholesterol. These include grains, vegetables, fruit, seeds, nuts, and polyunsaturated oils. A cautious incorporation of more of those foods and less of the high cholesterol food ones will help lower your overall levels and will help cut down on the treacherous saturated fats as well.

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Avoiding Cholesterol in Foods Won't Lower Your Cholesterol

If you avoid all foods that contain cholesterol, will your high cholesterol return to normal?

It's not that simple. Your blood cholesterol level is influenced far more by how many calories and how much saturated and partially hydrogenated fat you eat, than by how much cholesterol is in your food. Cholesterol is found only in foods from animals, such as meat, fish, chicken, dairy products and eggs. It is not found in plants. More than 80 percent of the cholesterol in your body is made by your liver. Less than 20 percent comes from the food that you eat. When you eat more cholesterol, your liver makes less.

Your liver makes cholesterol from saturated fats, which are found in most foods but are concentrated in meat, poultry and whole-milk dairy products. The saturated fat is broken down by your liver into acetone units. If you are not taking in too many calories, your liver uses the acetone units for energy, but if you are taking in more calories than your body needs, your liver uses these same acetone units to manufacture cholesterol. That explains why eating two eggs a day does not raise blood cholesterol levels in the average American. They are already taking in so much cholesterol from meat, fish and chicken and diary products, that when they take in more, they absorb less.

The average North American takes in 350 mg per day of cholesterol. If he takes in 26 mg per day, he absorbs 41 percent. When he takes in 188 mg cholesterol per day, he absorbs only 36 percent, and when he takes in 421 mg per day (the equivalent of two eggs), he absorbs only 25 percent. Some people absorb more than five times as much as other people at the same intake. So you lower blood cholesterol levels far more effectively by eating less food, less saturated fat and less partially hydrogenated fats than by avoiding foods that contain cholesterol.

Dr. Gabe Mirkin has been a radio talk show host for 25 years and practicing physician for more than 40 years; he is board certified in four specialties, including sports medicine. Read or listen to hundreds of his fitness and health reports at http://www.DrMirkin.com

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Lower Cholesterol with Diet, Not Drugs

Low Cholesterol Foods and Lowering Your Cholesterol

Low Cholesterol foods - diet necessity or diet nonsense?

Low cholesterol foods are all the rage. Virtually every newspaper, magazine, even TV ads trumpet the latest "low-fat", "low-cholesterol" or "cholesterol lowering" yoghurt , spread or even chocolate! These low cholesterol foods must be good news, mustn't it? Well yes, of course.....if you buy the "cholesterol kills you" propaganda from the food and pharmaceutical industries.

Cholesterol is an essential component of thousands of body processes, not least the majority of hormones, especially the sex hormones. Without cholesterol, these body processes would not be able to take place properly and the body would fall into disprepair (otherwise known as disease). Consequently, low cholesterol foods and foods that lower cholesterol may actually have a detrimental effect on many body processes. Blindly using chemicals (because that is what is in these "foods") to lower cholesterol disregards the actual CAUSE of the problem (for an in-depth report, see cholesterol) which will almost invariably correct itself if the cause of high cholesterol is removed.

What are low cholesterol foods?

Some low cholesterol foods are simply foods that have had their cholesterol removed. Whilst totally unnatural, these are probably the least unhealthy low cholesterol foods. Other low cholesterol foods have had their healthy, natural fats replaced with unhealthy, unnatural and downright dangerous plastics known as hydrogenated vegetable oils, which are high in trans-fats. These are highly dangerous chemicals that are implicated in many fat-related diseases.

A third group of "low cholesterol foods" (or claimed "cholesterol lowering foods") have apeared in recent years which give similar cause for concern. Many manufacturers have recently released products that are not only low in cholesterol (which is, of course utterly irrelevant) but which act chemically in the body to reduce cholesterol levels still further.

This is not good news for a body that has raised its cholesterol levels - a perfectly natural and healthy thing for it to do - the body does not increase cholesterol levels for the fun of it - the cholesterol levels are tightly controlled by the liver and the amount of cholesterol in the blood is totally unrelated to the amount of cholesterol in the diet (see cholesterol). As a consequence low cholesterol foods are a complete nonsense and may do more harm than good.

Do yourself a favour, inf out more about cholesterol, what it is, what it does and avoid low cholesterol foods completely!

B Adamson
Natural Health Information Centre
Cholesterol
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