Shopping for Low Cholesterol Foods

If you have high cholesterol levels chances are that your doctor has recommended that you follow a low cholesterol diet. The dietary changes are the easiest and fastest way to change your blood cholesterol levels. Therefor it is important that you have the persistence and perseverance to change your old shopping and eating habits to buy only low cholestrol foods to make a positive impact on your health.

A positive side affect of a low cholesterol diet is weight loss. The excess body fat is risky because it leads to higher levels of blood cholesterol. The loss in weight will also decrease risks of suppering from high blood pressure, coronary artery disease, heart attacks, and strokes.

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These days there are many books and websites written about diets that help you lower your cholesterol trough diets.  This is a good thing because they give us the information to help us with our health. It is important to know that all of these diets follow the same principle,
namely that foods that are high in cholesterol should be eaten with moderation while saturated and trans fats should be avoided all together.







There is one confusing thing about low cholesterol diets, not all high cholesterol foods are
necessarily bad for ones health.  Numerous studies have shown that saturated and trans fats have a far greater impact on raising cholesterol levels than foods that contain high amounts of cholesterol.If you would eat these two types of fats in large amounts it will raise your cholesterol to dangerous levels.

For example. We have been told that we should avoid eggs, or at least the yolks, because they contain high amounts of cholesterol.  Because they thought that high cholesterol in food automatically translates to high cholesterol in the blood. But it doesn't work that way. Would you cook these eggs in butter and add some bacon or sausage on the side is where it would change. The saturated fats from the butter and the bacon or sausage will have raise your cholesterol while the eggs alone would have little to no impact.



The next time you go out to do some grocery shopping you need to read the labels carefully. Avoiding foods that contain saturated or trans-fats on their label is the key to getting cholesterol under control.

I would suggest making a list of foods that you can eat that are healthy as well as cholesterol friendly before you go to the grocery store. These days there are plenty of websites or books that contain recipes and lists of groceries that will help you meet your lower cholesterol goal.


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