NATURAL WAYS TO LOWER YOUR CHOLESTEROL

Are you one of the forty percent of the adult population that suffers from high cholesterol, or what the medical professionals refer to as hyperlipidemia?.

Everybody should be concerned with what they eat. More so for people with high cholesterol levels and heart ailments. You need to start adding foods to your diet that will help to lower your cholesterol.

SOME NATURAL WAYS TO LOWER YOUR CHOLESTEROL

There are many natural ways to lower your cholesterol besides the traditional medication options, as well as a reduced diet and exercise program.

Whether it is the food we eat or how we treat our bodies, there are many ways we can lower our cholesterol levels and in doing so decrease the risk of having heart disease.

Green Tea

Green tea is an antioxidant. It can help to stop cholesterol from forming in the blood. Drink a cup of green tea a day for your health and wellness.

Soy

Eating soy rather than meat. Soy will help you to stop eating the red meats in your diet without risking your daily requirements for protein. There are so many soy milk and soy food products today.

Olive Oil

Use olive oil in your homemade salad dressings. A study found that diets rich in this kind of mono unsaturated fat helped reduced LDL cholesterol in people with diabetes or metabolic syndrome.

Multi-Vitamins

Taking a quality multi-vitamin can help to decrease the risk of having heart disease, and also help lower the risk for cholesterol.

Some important components of the multi-vitamin will include vitamin B12 and folic acid, which has been shown to reduce the risk of developing heart disease by 31%.

Folic Acid

Folic acid is just as important as it has been shown to decrease the blood levels of amino acids that can cause a stroke, heart disease and hyperlipidemia.

Vitamin B

The B vitamin is important as they will help promote a healthy heart. By having the multi vitamins you will increase your health and more importantly decrease your risk of getting heart disease.

When you do take a multi-vitamin, beware of the iron content. Large amounts of iron have been known to discount some of the other healthy heart vitamins and increase blood cholesterol levels.

Talk to you doctor about this, as always, take advice when looking to take medicines.

NATURAL WAYS TO LOWER YOUR CHOLESTEROL WITH FOOD

So what are the other foods that are natural ways to lower your cholesterol.

Fish 

Fish and fish oils are the main sources of the Omega 3 fatty acids. Omega 3 will help lower cholesterol.

Orange Juice

A glass of orange juice. When buying your juice make sure you find one that contains cholesterol-lowering plant sterol's. By drinking two glasses a day it has been shown to decrease cholesterol levels.

If you do not like juice try Cranberry juice as an alternative.

Avocados

Ok so all fruits are good for us, but those avocados are the type of fruits that can directly lower your cholesterol. So what's better for you cakes or avocados.

Oatmeal

Have some oatmeal regularly for breakfast. As it is rich in a soluble fiber called beta glucan. Oatmeal has been proven to drop your LDL 12-24 percent. If you eat 1 1/2 cups regularly. But ensure you use the quick-cooking or old-fashioned oats instead of instant.

Red Wine

You could always try some red wine which has been known to decrease cholesterol. The red wines are 3-10 times higher in a plant compound called saponins believed to be responsible for much of wine's beneficial effects on cholesterol. In moderation only of course, again consult your doctor as well.

Wholegrain Bread

When having sandwiches make them on whole grain breads. By cutting back on simple carbs like white bread and by eating more complex carbs, like whole grain breads, pasta and brown rice, this will also help you.

Almonds

A handful of almonds a day can help to decrease the level of cholesterol by up to nine percent over the course of three months.

Food types such as soy and tofu can help in decreasing the cholesterol. After twelve weeks of soy infused diets study's had shown a decreased cholesterol level of five percent over the course of the study.

We now know coffee is bad for you but did you also know that two substances found in brewed coffee, kahweol and cafestol, will increase cholesterol levels.

There are many foods that we can choose to eat that have a beneficial effect on our health, rather than foods high in sugar or fats that only increase the cholesterol in our body's.

So ensure you choose the foods that will help to lower your cholesterol.