Pectin helps eliminate
bad cholesterol out of the body and is great for heart health as well as digestive health.
Fiber is good for your digestive and intestinal system, and the soluble fiber in chickpeas may also usher
bad cholesterol out of the body.
Not exact matches
This sweet, rich oil was shown to do some pretty nifty things for abdominally obese women in a 2009 study
out of Brazil, including decreasing their waist circumference, increasing beneficial HDL (high - density lipoprotein)
cholesterol and improving the ratio of «
bad» LDL (low - density lipoprotein) to «good» HDL
cholesterol.
Lots of people began avoiding egg yolks when nutrition experts came
out with a recommendation that eating
cholesterol was
bad for you because it raised your
cholesterol.
One of the great things about building a burger from the ground up is you can leave in the good stuff (protein), and leave
out the
bad (
cholesterol).
Your doctor may advise you to take a statin if your
cholesterol is slightly elevated, but he or she probably will not tell you that
out of 35 people taking the drug for four years, only one person will actually benefit from it in terms of avoiding a coronary event or another
bad outcome.
When it comes to health, egg yolks and especially eggs»
cholesterol is being pointed
out as the «really
bad guy».
Of course as Drs Greger and McDougall and registered dietician Jeff Novick always are pointing
out food is a package deal... other things come along with the animal and plant protein which on the animal side are generally
bad (saturated fats,
cholesterol, chemicals) and plant side which are generally good (phytochemicals, fiber, water)... see the video http://nutritionfacts.org/video/plant-protein-preferable/.
Read on to find
out why
cholesterol - lowering drugs may be causing more harm than good and how the «
bad cholesterol» mantra is really a marketing slogan.
In one 2012 study
out of San Diego State University, people who ate about an ounce and a half of dark chocolate (with 70 percent cocoa) daily for two weeks had lower levels of
bad cholesterol and higher good
cholesterol than those who nibbled on white chocolate, which contains zero cocoa.
Changing
out bad fats, or saturated and trans fats, for healthier fats — monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats, can help lower
cholesterol and blood pressure.
If you still believe that saturated fat and
cholesterol are bad, check out my post here: The Obesity Epidemic, the Truth about Cholesterol and Sat
cholesterol are
bad, check
out my post here: The Obesity Epidemic, the Truth about
Cholesterol and Sat
Cholesterol and Saturated Fat.
While scientists were trying to figure
out why eating
cholesterol didn't increase
bad cholesterol in the body, they found that when people cut their consumption of meat, eggs, and dairy, they replaced those foods with more and more starchy carbs.
Hydrogenated oils have at least four negative impacts on your body: they raise LDL
cholesterol (the
bad kind) and they lower HDL
cholesterol (the good kind, which helps move LDL
cholesterol out of the arteries and back to the liver where it can be metabolized).
A study
out of Haifa indicates that pomegranate juice slows down the
bad cholesterol oxidation by nearly 50 %!
For additional context, check
out my associated blog posts: Stool Size and Breast Cancer Risk;
Cholesterol Lowering in a Nut Shell; Optimal Phytosterol Dose and Source; and Is Coconut Oil
Bad For You?
I don't know why I freaked
out so
bad after being vegan and switching to a WAPF diet knowing my
cholesterol would increase.
The insoluble fiber takes longer to travel through the intestines, so it have enough time to absorb the toxins and
bad cholesterol metabolized in the liver, which will be flushed
out along with the fiber.
You would have to see what they are eating?Just because your Vegan, doesn't mean your
cholesterol will go down.Most Vegans eat 60 - 70 - % of their calories from fat, because they think carbs are the
bad guy.Check
out 80/10/10, or Mcdougal diet, or Dr.Essylstein from the world famous Cleveland heart clinic.Most DR's are recommending heart healthy oils, wich are vegan, but pure fat..
I should also point
out that both groups drastically reduced their LDL («
bad»)
cholesterol and their triglycerides.
But my
bad cholesterol was
out of control as well as other health damage occurred whenever I ate meat.
Too
bad that all the low - carbers, paleo people and Atkins followers are missing
out on the benefits of Oatmeal while ingesting fat and
cholesterol from their egg breakfasts.
Thankfully, there are a wide variety of fibrous foods that can help lower your
bad cholesterol level, and including them in your diet doesn't have to mean shelling
out lots of money or sacrificing flavor.
Low - carb diets can have both good and
bad effects on
cholesterol, so it's important to get your heart checked
out and get your doctor's go - ahead before you get started.
We need more
cholesterol when we are stressed, ill, pregnant, growing, injured, training, working hard or eating a
bad diet that damages our body, and we need less when we are sedentary, relaxed, well, and generally chilled
out and eating a good diet!
Soluble fiber can reduce both «
bad» LDL and overall
cholesterol, perhaps by binding with
cholesterol particles in your digestive system and moving them
out of the body before they're absorbed.
I guess the point is that the scale can play tricks on you — when I started this at 435 lbs, couldnt move without pain, couldnt walk two minutes without being
out of breath - it wasnt easy — my body was in such shock from eating clean that when I ate anything with medium - high sodium I would gain 8 lbs in three hours afterwards — mathmatically impossible... But the end result is I had full blown diabetes, poor good and
bad cholesterol, and electrolytes — In 8 weeks all of those things turned around, including the diabetes being gone.
The message that «
cholesterol is
bad and if you have high
cholesterol you should take a statin to lower it» is
out of date and not in sync with the most recent scientific evidence.
This MD in Australia talks about
cholesterol and the fact that the way it is tested today is incomplete and does not tell the whole story when you just look at A1c, LDL, HDL, and Triglycerides, this diet raises your
cholesterol but there is a small dense LDL that is not accepted by the liver for servicing but rejected and ends up in your arteries as plaque... and this is what needs to be included in a Lipid panel because this diet pre-diet shows a lipid panel that is not to
bad but when you look at the SDLDL it is at 20 which is very high, and when on this diet for 6 or more weeks your lipid panel is higher but the SDLDL is 0 Zero... so your doctor flips
out and yells at you but in fact you are much less prone to heart failure...
In fact, a study
out last week found that oat consumption doesn't just help lower LDL (
bad)
cholesterol levels, but that it also brings down two other markers of cardiovascular risk — non-HDL
cholesterol (total
cholesterol minus HDL) and apolipoprotein B, a protein that carries
bad cholesterol through the blood.