May 31 2008
Natural Ways in Managing Cholesterol
The amount of cholesterol in your body determines your health. There’s the bad cholesterol and the good cholesterol, and how much of both is present in your body, whether it is good or bad, is often influenced by your lifestyle and eating habits. Too much of fats in the diet and lack of exercise or inactivity is always a bad combination, one that can lead to high levels of bad cholesterol. The treatment or management for this may therefore include careful management of diet and, possibly, a change in the lifestyle.
A low fat diet coupled with an intake of the different forms of Vitamin B, except niacin, may help decrease the amount of bad cholesterol or LDL (low density lipoproteins), in the body. Whole wheat, oatmeal, whole brown rice, soybean, milk, black strap molasses, fish, chicken, broccoli, and spinach, are all excellent sources of Vitamin B, so have these in your kitchen cupboard most of the time.
Dietary fiber can also reduce the levels of bad cholesterol by binding to the molecules of cholesterol, thereby preventing it to be absorbed in the blood stream. You can get fiber from products such as vegetables, fibrous fruits and whole grains.
Garlic, grape seed, royal jelly, chromium, Vitamin C the q10 coenzyme, and pantothine, too, can help decrease bad cholesterol levels. Continue Reading »
