Cholesterol Today

Get the Flash Player to see this player.

International Visitors

Choose your Language

Members

Visitors: 25077

Changing Your High Cholesterol Diet Menu

By Ben Needles

Changing your high cholesterol diet menu is easier than it may sound. It wont cost you as much as you think and the changes that result from it will made your life better. Your pantry will be the starting point. Here is where you may need to toss out some things and purchase substitutes but really thats all you have to do.

You need to begin by changing the things that you use such as salad dressings, and marinades, by changing these you can go a long way to reducing the amount of cholesterol in your diet. The way in which you cook your food can also change the amount of cholesterol in your diet. You will also find that when you change the way you cook your food it will taste better and be better for you.

Cooking Methods

Changing your cooking methods from a high cholesterol diet menu to a low cholesterol diet is not that hard either. By altering the way you prepare and cook food you can have a much healthier diet. Replace frying meat

Tag it:

By Sean Green

Cholesterol is an essential part of life. It is produced by the liver which synthesises about 1 gramme per day. This substance is classified as a sterol (a combination of steroid and alcohol).

Cholesterol forms an essential component of cell membranes of mammals.It is the main precursor of vitamin D and of the steroid hormones such as cortisol and aldosterone and the sex hormones (oestrogens, testosterone and progesterone). It also is essential in the formation of the myelin sheath which wraps around nerves and helps to conduct nerve impulses.

An excessively high cholesterol, however is associated with atherosclerosis, which is essentially a narrowing and clogging up of arteries with a complex of cholesterol in a scaffolding of scar tissue. This narrowing of blood flow through arteries has the most significant effect in the heart (where it may cause heart attacks) and in the brain (where it is associated with strokes).

According to the lipid theory, raised levels of total cholesterol, as well as LDL cholesterol (commonly called bad cholesterol), as well as low levels of HDL cholesterol (commonly called

Tag it:

Cholesterol Today

High Cholesterol Today

Members

Latest News