Eating To Live-the Low Cholesterol Foods
Posted on April 3, 2008 - Filed Under Health and Fitness
It is not expected that you should totally change or alter ingrained habits of a lifetime of eating patterns, but being able to accept a few adjustments with regard to your eating patterns, puts you well on your way to a wealth of delicious, natural flavors of a wide variety of natural foods, that are low cholesterol foods, as nature intended, to your good health.
For instance, you can easily make these adjustments.
Substitute: honey, date sugar for processed white or brown sugar.
Carob powder for chocolate
Skimmed milk for heavy cream
Wine vinegars for other vinegars
Unsalted butter for salted butter( and use the unsalted
butter sparingly)
Non-gluten flours for all other flours
Egg whites for whole eggs
Dulse for processed salt
Canned juice, dried fruit, unsalted popcorn for theater snacks
Dried and fresh fruit for a craving for sweets.
Life was never meant to be a struggle. It is because we ignore nature’s simple and definite laws, that sooner than later, man or woman crushes and burns, and such is the story of high bad cholesterol and your determined search for cholesterol lowering foods.
It is important to know why you eat and what varieties of foods are necessary both for the nutrition of your body and the reduction of fat and bad cholesterol.
Basically, you need a variety of natural nutritious foods to provide for the building, maintainance and repair of your body cells and tissues,in addition to providing you with energy.
Let us take a brief and informative look at the food sources for the major nutrients, vitamins and minerals, the role and use of these elements in your body, and the effects of their deficiency.
Vitamin
Food Source
Use in Body
Effects Of Deficiency
A
Apricot
Parsley
Spinach
Red Hot peppers
Promotes growth and reproduction.
Stored in liver, eyes,
Skin, lungs, kidney, gall-bladder
Night blindness.
Reduced ability to resist
infections
B-1
Yeast, Wheat germ
Sunflower seeds
Peanuts
Builds energy and appetite.
Aids digestion
Heart
Liver
Nervous instability
Depression
Fatigue
B-2
Almonds
Wheat germ
Mushrooms
Resistance to disease
Improve skin
Improve eye conditions
Liver, Kidney, Heart
Cracks at lip corners.
Swollen lips and tongue.
Burning, itching eyes.
Blurred vision.
B-3
Rice bran
Wheat germ
Peanuts
Mental health
Aids nervous system
Adrenal glands
Intestinal, skin and
Neurological change.
B-5
Wheat germ
Legumes
Healthy skin and hair
Adrenal hormones
Production of anti-
biotics
Liver
Nausea
Sullenness, Depression
Pain in arms, legs.
Repeated infections
Rapid pulse
B-6
Wheat germ
Cabbage(red)
Oranges
Nervous system
Blood cells
Liver.
Seborrhea
Same as B-5
B-12
B-complex foods
Blocks nerve cell
Degeneration.
Pernicious anemia
Skin and nerve inflammation
Folic Acid
Mushrooms
Green leaf veggies
Wheat germ
Healthy blood
Anemia
PABA
Wheat germ
B-complex foods
Maintain natural
Color of hair
Loss of hair
Reproduction failure
Biotin
Most B-complex foods
Mental health
Liver, kidney
pancreas
Dermatitis of arms, legs
Nervousness
Anemia
Choline
Spinach
Wheat germ
Nuts
Fruits
HEALTHY ARTERIES
Degeneration of kidney, adrenals, lungs,
eyes, heart
Cirrhosis
Inositol
Grapefruit
Wheat germ
Cantaloupe
Nuts
Healthy hair
Delays HARDENING of
ARTERIES
Loss of hair
Reproduction failure
Lecithin
Soybean
Most food plants
Liver
ARTERY DEGENERATION
Fatigue
Skin disorders
*This continues at next posting
Do stay tuned here for the next post, to continue to take a look at the various nutrients, and the cholesterol lowering foods..http://www.loweringhighcholesterol.org
Having bounced back from the edge of disaster, this is an effort to convey lessons learned with take-away useable tips. Allow me to point out the obvious that is ignored by most.
The more we move away from nature and her very simple definite laws, man or woman will sooner than later “crash and burn”
And for lack of knowldge in action, a people surely perish.
This site is one of my humble contribution of practical resources in your determined pursuit for better health. As someone once said , it is in your hands.
There is more to come at http://www.loweringhighcholesterol.org
Tags: low cholesterol foods, nutritious foods, reduce fat, vitamins and minerals
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