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Fixing the High Cholesterol Diet

DietingWhat some might find to be common sense, others find to be quite taxing on their lives in terms of dieting. While crash diets are never recommended, it is important to understand your own body in regards to the amount of calories you are consuming, but more importantly the amount of cholesterol found in foods. Sure you could eat steak everyday, and enjoy the protein benefits, but the cholesterol levels found in a steak, eaten daily could run you into a risk factor for elevated high cholesterol levels. High cholesterol is not something that you want to have in your system, not only does it elevate your risk of getting heart disease, it has been associated with many different cardio vascular diseases and in severe instances have proven fatal through heart attacks and stroke. Changing the habits of your diet can be as easy as common sense, or as complicated as pairing the right meat with the right vegetable and vice versa.

Healthy vegetable salad.Foods that lower cholesterol and fix the high cholesterol diet are those that do not contain a high amount of saturated fat. Fruits and vegetables are the easiest way to go, and help your body fight infection, help cure disease, and best of all help in the fight against bad cholesterol build up in your system. For example, one easy switch could be using extra virgin olive oil. It increases the amount of HDL cholesterol in your body and helps clean the arteries in the process. HDL is a good kind of cholesterol opposed to LDL which can be fatal if not taken care of. The second food you can easily add to your diet is simply green leafy vegetables and green salads. These should be essential in your quest to fixing the high cholesterol diet. Just beware that because you’re eating a salad doesn’t mean you’re eating healthy. Salad dressings and additional toppings like bacon, eggs, and deli meats can elevate not only the caloric count on a salad but the cholesterol that you’re trying to lower in the first place.

WalnutsIf you need at least one day of good eating, then here’s a healthy plan of attack. Start your morning with oat cereal or a cereal that is high in soluble fiber. For a snack choose fuirts and eat the seeds. This doesn’t mean you have to eat a mango and chomp down the seed, but smaller items like strawberries, blackberries, and yes even grapes. Further down on your days plan of attack replace animal fats with small quantities of nuts, especially walnuts, pecans and soy nuts. While they are higher in calories they are rich in Vitamin E which can help you out during the day. As for lunch and dinner, you should consume at least one legume dish and a type of vegetable to even it out. This can mean dried beans, peas, lentils, soup or salad. The combination will help you get a jump start on your plan of attack against the killer high cholesterol diet.