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Your New Years Resolution and Cholesterol-Lowering Food |
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By Gladys Franz
 The most common New Years resolutions include changing some aspect of ones lifestyle to promote better health. One such health problem needing to be changed is high cholesterol. Whether a resolution or a doctors orders, lowering high cholesterol is important. While many are focusing on dismissing foods they shouldnt eat, a more positive way to look at it is finding cholesterol-lowering food that is enjoyable and healthy.
Discovering the need to lower your cholesterol often leaves you with a huge list of things you shouldnt eat. Many people are left wondering what exactly they can and should eat. Learning about cholesterol-lowering foods, the benefits, and how these foods can help is a more positive way of looking at this issue.
The many foods that fall under the category of healthy and enjoyable cholesterol-lowering food include garlic, onions, oats, legumes, nuts, fruits, vegetables, and fish. Using these foods to replace some other high cholesterol foods in your diet can bring about excellent results when trying to lower your cholesterol level.
Change Your Diet
Learning to use cholesterol-lowering food
in your diet can be done, although it means cutting out some of the foods you love best. Substituting whole wheat bread for white bread is essential, and replacing some of your red meat consumption with fish is an excellent way to start changing your diet. Adding garlic and onions to various dishes when cooking is a way to get these foods into your diet.
Oats, another great cholesterol-lowering food, make for a healthy and hearty breakfast. Due to the fat content in some nuts, you need to count them out for your snacks. Fifteen makes a great snack of this protein-rich food. Adding more servings of fruits and vegetables to your meals is also a great way to improve your diet. Your diet doesnt have to be completely changed overnight, but small changes in your diet can improve your long-term health.
There are many positive things you can do now, whether you are changing your diet due to doctors orders, or because its your New Years resolution. View your new diet in a positive light. Dont see what you shouldnt eat, but look at all the great cholesterol-lowering food that you can experience and incorporate into your new diet. Balancing your diet and your attitude is important. It might take some hard work, but this is one New Years resolution that will bring great rewards for many years to come.
Gladys Franz is a heart attack survivor and author of several articles on the dangers of Bad Cholesterol. To read more, please visit Best Cholesterol Info. |
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