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Cholesterol Lowering Foods: Nuts, Oatmeal, Grapefruit, Apples…
Eat These to Lower Your LDL Cholesterol Levels
The latest research shows: eating these certain cholesterol lowering foods by adding them to your daily diet, can lower the artery-clogging LDLS! See food list below…
Cardiologists wish everyone would eat these foods!
Keeping “bad” LDL cholesterol levels below 100 mg/dl can cut your risk of heart disease by 50%.
Here are TOP Foods:
- Nuts – Reduce LDLs by 33%
The benefits of eating 2 oz. of nuts daily:
- reduce your total cholesterol by 25%
- lower your artery-clogging LDLs by 33%
- raise your healthy, artery-clearing HDL cholesterol by 11%
David Katz, MD, of Yale University’s Prevention Research Center explains,
“Nuts are rich in monounsaturated fats, the kind that help the liver keep its cholesterol production in check.”
According to Woman’s World mag.
“Eating nuts will cut your your risk of clogged arteries and add 5 more years to your life!. Research shows monounsaturated fats are such powerful appetite suppressants that women who eat unlimited amounts naturally eat less of other foods, and so don’t gain weight.”
- Mineral Water Lowers LDL Cholesterol by 15%
Sipping two 8-oz. glasses daily of mineral water reduces LDL cholesterol production by 15% — Spanish researchers say.
Carolyn Dean, MD, author of The Miracle of Magnesium explains:
“Mineral waters contain magnesium, calcium and other healing elements that lower LDL production in the liver.”
- Oatmeal Controls Cholesterol Production
The food you eat in the morning improves your liver’s ability to control cholesterol production. It lowers the unhealthy LDL cholesterol by 10%.
Dr. Katz, author of The Way to Eat says,
Eating Oatmeal is doubly smart. Each cup contains 2 grams of soluble fiber, molecules that act like sponges in the intestines, soaking up fat molecules before they can reach the bloodstream.”
If you enjoy eating one bowl daily — this will result another 5-point drop in cholesterol — and a 15% lower risk of heart attack and stroke.
Food tip from Woman’s World magazine:
Stir wheat germ into your cereal and add it to casseroles. It’s rich in cholesterol-lowering plant sterols, and eating a few tablespoons daily helps cut LDL cholesterol production by 8%.
- Cranberry and Orange Juice for Your Liver
If you can’t eat the recommended 8 – 10 servings of LDL-lowering-fruits and veggies daily — try sipping 2 tall glasses of cranberry or orange juice daily.
Calcium-enriched cranberry juice and orange juice lower blood levels of LDL cholesterol by 12% or more.
The liver’s ability to keep cholesterol production in check will be improved — when the cranberry’s polyphenols and orange juice flavonoids are combined with calcium.
- Red Grapefruit Pushes LDL Cholesterol Numbers Down
Eating one ruby-red grapefruit each day cuts LDL cholesterol by as much as 20%. This works even for women whose cholesterol is sky-high and stubbornly resistant to statin drugs.
The red-grapefruit’s rich supply of antioxidants prevents the liver’s tendency to go overboard when it’s producing plaque-forming blood fats.
Recent study at Johns Hopkins University shows:
Women who eat grapefruit of any color daily effortlessly shed up to 20 pounds in 3 months.
According to the researchers: Each grapefruit is packed with at least 12 grams of appetite-suppressing fiber.
- Apples: Keep Your Cholesterol Levels in Check
Each 5 oz. apple contains 3 grams of pectin, a unique soluble fiber that binds to bad fats in the intestine, blocking their absorption.
Scientists have discovered that apples are:
- Rich in flavonoids, compounds that reduce cholesterol’s ability to cling to arteries by as much as 38%
- Top source of d-glucaric acid – a substance that cuts the formation of LDL cholesterol in the liver by as much as 35%!
The study-proven dose: 1 medium apple — or roughly 1 cup of applesauce, crisp or pie — daily!
- Other Cholesterol-Lowering Foods:
The following foods that lower LDL cholesterol in small doses… Adding one of these foods to your daily diet can send your levels of “bad” cholesterol down by 7%!:
- Flaxseeds – 1 Tbs.
- Psyllium – 1 Tbs
- Barley – 1/2 cup
- Beans – 1 cup
- Shiitaki mushrooms – 1/2 cup
- Carrots – 1/2 cup
Reference:
Woman’s World Magazine, 1/19/09, p. 14
To Lower Cholesterol Diet: Plant-Based Diet Reverse Heart Disease
Watch the video and learn more from Dr. Esselstyn about plant-based diet: to lower your cholesterol naturally and reverse heart disease.
If you’re looking for Plant-Based Diet Recipes, you can check out the following pages:
- Esselstyn Plant-Based Diet Recipes – Lower Cholesterol With Diet
- Plant Based Diet Recipes and Menus – Engine2 Diet To Lower Cholesterol
Dr. Campbell and Dr. Esselstyn are recommending to adopt plant-based diet to fight diseases: cancer, obesity, heart disease and chronic illnesses.
Killer diseases flourish in the United States. The “war” on these killers began decades ago; yet every minute in the United States one person dies of heart disease and another of cancer.
In US heart disease kills 710,760 each year.
Meanwhile, these diseases are rare in other parts of the world.
The information below are excerpts from Vibrant Life Health magazine (issue May /June 2011). Heather Kolich reports her personal interview (January 5, 2011) with Dr. Campbell, Dr. Esselstyn and also his wife Anne.
Top Doctors Recommend Plant-Based Diet to Reverse Heart Diseases, Boost Overall Health
The results of both doctors’ studies following below, along with analysis of data from around the world, have led them to conclude that most of the chronic diseases Americans develop are actually food-borne illnesses. These chronic diseases are a result of our “Western” diet: meat-centered, protein-heavy, and rich in fats and sugars.
In the documentary film Forks Over Knives, Campbell and Esselstyn demonstrate their findings so that food consumers—can learn to make nutritional choices that fend of disease, lose weight, and boost overall health.
What both doctors recommend? Dump all animal-derived foods, processed food products, and oils; and adopt a whole food diet: Plant-based Diet.
Dr. Campbell: Plant-Based Diet -- Turned Off Cancer Cell Growth
Dr. T. Colin Campbell, a nutritional biochemist and Professor Emeritus at Cornell University, has been working for decades to untangle the relationship between diet and disease.
According to Dr. Campbell, “the nutrients in animal-based foods are quite different from plant-based foods. Milk proteins stimulated cancer growth—all the amino acids were there and available. With plant proteins, the composition of amino acids is not quite right [for cancer growth.] They didn’t supply the same fertilizing effect.”
In other words, food from animal sources turned on cancer cell growth. Food from plant sources turned off cancer cell growth. In laboratory tests, these results proved true for both liver and breast cancer, with four different carcinogens, and in two different species.
Dr. Esselstyn: Cardiovascular Disease from Western Diet
Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., a former surgeon who is now director of the Cardiovascular Disease Reversal and Prevention Program at Cleveland Clinic’s Wellness Institute, uses nutrition to halt and reverse heart disease.
Dr. Esselstyn was a successful surgeon at Cleveland Clinic. He became disillusioned with conventional medical treatments for cancer.
Dr. Esslestyn says, “No matter how much surgery I did, I wasn’t solving the casual problem. Around 1983 or 1984, I decided the way to get at cancer was through the heart. I think there’s an area where all experts would agree on cardiovascular disease. The Western diet continually damages the endothelium—the guard cells of our blood vessels. Certain foods injure endothelial cells. What foods? Processed oils, dairy products, and any food that had a face and a mother. We take those poor little endothelial cells and hammer them day after day. By our 20s, we have cardiovascular disease.”
Dr. Esselstyn Plant-Based Diet Treatment- Achieved Lower Cholesterol, Stopped Heart Disease
Dr. Esselstyn designed a clinical trial to test the effects of nutrition treatment on a group of patients with severe coronary artery disease.
Between 1985 and 1988, 22 patients joined the trial. The treatment consisted of cholesterol-lowering medication and a strict, plant-based diet—whole food diet with no additional oils.
Before entering the trial, 17 patients had experienced 37 heart events, including bypass surgery, heart attacks, and strokes. Throughout the trial, the patients achieved significantly lower blood cholesterol and triglycerides (the stuff that causes artery-blocking plaques), stopped the progression of their heart disease, and reversed its effects in many instances. They also had no further cardiac events.
Eleven of the participants continued with the trial for an additional five years, gaining even greater progress against their disease. Some of them still follow the plant-based diet, more than 20 years after the trial began.
Cholesterol Goes Down, Illness Cure from Plant-Based Diet
Dr. Campbell says, “If you try to size up nutrients in terms of where they come from, plant-based foods increase health; animal foods detract. The best kind is whole, just as nature made these foods. Instead of us consuming whole foods, we consume too many animal-based foods and processed foods. The ideal food is the whole plant. When you eat it that way, you get amazing results. Cholesterol goes down, you can cure illness.”
Dr. Esselstyn says, “The single most important thing is what goes through your lips. That determines whether your disease progresses or regresses. If everyone started eating to save their heart, we’d really empty out the hospitals. This same approach doesn’t apply only to heart. It applies to other organs as well.
Americans assume we have to eat lots of meat to get protein. American eats about 222 pounds of meat each year, taking in 70-100 grams of protein every day. Along with this excess protein comes extra fat and cholesterol. This creates an environment that nurtures cancer cells, heart disease, and a host of chronic illnesses.
The good news is, plants have protein, too. And according to Dr. Campbell, it is present in sufficient amounts in plants to supply all the protein our bodies need.
What else do grains, vegetables, and fruits bring to the table? In addition to protein, they contain loads of vitamins, minerals, fiber, and age- and cancer-fighting antioxidants. What don’t they bring? Excess calories, fat and cholesterol.
Start Plant-Based Diet
If the evidence convinces you to adopt a whole food, plant-based diet, where do you begin?
“You can modify old recipes,” says Dr. Esselstyn’s wife, Anne Esselstyn, who provides counseling and workshops to patients beginning the diet. Over the past 26 years of following the diet with her husband, Anne developed 150 recipes that don’t use meat, dairy, or additional oils. For recipes from Dr. Esselstyn’s book Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease -- click here → Plant Based Diet Recipes: Lower Cholesterol Diet.
An even better approach according to Dr. Campbell and the Esselstyns: Dump your old diet completely. Dr. Esselstyn says, “The endothelial cells recover very rapidly when you take away injurious foods.”
If we change suddenly, in about 1 month for salt and 3-4 months for fat, we adapt to the new tastes and don’t want to go back.”
Source:
Heather Kolich, Vibrant Life Magazine, May/June 2011, pp. 5-8
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