High Cholesterol Can Kill
By: Alphonso Smith
Controlling Cholesterol
To decrease saturated fats in your diet:
Read labels on food packages. Don't look only for cholesterol content. Look for saturated or hidden fats. This especially applies to commercially baked goods such as cakes, pies, cookies, doughnuts, crackers and chips.
Replace butter with vegetable oil. Use canola, corn, sunflower, safflower, soybean and olive oil in food preparation. Avoid hydrogenated soybean or cottonseed oil.
Use skim or low-fat (1 percent) milk.
Shun products containing palm or coconut oil.
Eat low-fat cheeses such as part-skim mozzarella.
Instead of ice cream, choose ice milk, sherbet or low-fat yogurt.
Trim all visible fat from meat. Select lean cuts of beef, veal or pork.
Avoid high-fat meat products such as hot dogs, hamburgers, bacon, sausage, bologna and salami.
Eat more chicken and turkey (with skin removed) and more fish.
Choose turkey, lean roast beef, lean ham and water-packed albacore tuna fish for sandwiches.
Prepare more meals that use meat sparingly. Soups, stews, stir-fry meals and pasta dishes call for more vegetables and carbohydrat
es and less meat.
Broil, bake or steam foods instead of frying them.
Make you own salad dressings, using less oil.
To decrease cholesterol in you diet:
Limit your consumption of egg yolks to one or two a week.
Use egg whites and Better than eggs product in food preparation.
Eat moderate portions of lean meat, fish and poultry. Keep your daily consumption at about 6 ounces.
Avoid organ meats (liver, kidneys, sweetbreads etc.
Eat fewer commercially baked products (cakes, pies, cookies, doughnuts, crackers and chips),
Regular physical exercise can help increase the level of HDL-or good-cholesterol.
You can do a number of things to improve your cholesterol level. Eat healthy is one. Food can help lower your LDL cholesterol level. You can lower your risk by quitting smoking, losing weight and exercising.
The American Heart Association is an excellent source of information at a very low cost. If you have access to the internet, a good website for information is the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at: www.nhlbi.nih.gov.
Attempt to lower your cholesterol level by changing your diet. There is always medicine if all else fails.
Controlling Cholesterol
To decrease saturated fats in your diet:
Read labels on food packages. Don't look only for cholesterol content. Look for saturated or hidden fats. This especially applies to commercially baked goods such as cakes, pies, cookies, doughnuts, crackers and chips.
Replace butter with vegetable oil. Use canola, corn, sunflower, safflower, soybean and olive oil in food preparation. Avoid hydrogenated soybean or cottonseed oil.
Use skim or low-fat (1 percent) milk.
Shun products containing palm or coconut oil.
Eat low-fat cheeses such as part-skim mozzarella.
Instead of ice cream, choose ice milk, sherbet or low-fat yogurt.
Trim all visible fat from meat. Select lean cuts of beef, veal or pork.
Avoid high-fat meat products such as hot dogs, hamburgers, bacon, sausage, bologna and salami.
Eat more chicken and turkey (with skin removed) and more fish.
Choose turkey, lean roast beef, lean ham and water-packed albacore tuna fish for sandwiches.
Prepare more meals that use meat sparingly. Soups, stews, stir-fry meals and pasta dishes call for more vegetables and carbohydrat
Broil, bake or steam foods instead of frying them.
Make you own salad dressings, using less oil.
To decrease cholesterol in you diet:
Limit your consumption of egg yolks to one or two a week.
Use egg whites and Better than eggs product in food preparation.
Eat moderate portions of lean meat, fish and poultry. Keep your daily consumption at about 6 ounces.
Avoid organ meats (liver, kidneys, sweetbreads etc.
Eat fewer commercially baked products (cakes, pies, cookies, doughnuts, crackers and chips),
Regular physical exercise can help increase the level of HDL-or good-cholesterol.
You can do a number of things to improve your cholesterol level. Eat healthy is one. Food can help lower your LDL cholesterol level. You can lower your risk by quitting smoking, losing weight and exercising.
The American Heart Association is an excellent source of information at a very low cost. If you have access to the internet, a good website for information is the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at: www.nhlbi.nih.gov.
Attempt to lower your cholesterol level by changing your diet. There is always medicine if all else fails.
Alphonso Smith is a regular writer for GOOD HEALTH MATTERS. Mr. Smith is also the author of A GUIDE TO GOOD CREDIT and a fledgling internet marketer. For more information and direction, go to: http://www.ourtopchoices.com No cost
