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Cholesterol Reducing Spreads

  • 17-03-2011 12:36am
    #1
    Atlantic1
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    Just a quick question. I'm eating very carefully at the moment in order to have a healthy cholesterol level.

    My question simply is this:- Which would lead to a lower cholesterol level, bread with cholesterol lowering spread or bread with something like jam or honey?


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  • #2
    Ice.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 147 ✭✭Ice.


    Atlantic1 wrote: »
    Which would lead to a lower cholesterol level

    Reducing your intake of dietary cholesterol. You need to treat the cause and not the symptom otherwise it's just a case of rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.


  • #3
    Compak
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    Atlantic1 wrote: »
    Just a quick question. I'm eating very carefully at the moment in order to have a healthy cholesterol level.

    My question simply is this:- Which would lead to a lower cholesterol level, bread with cholesterol lowering spread or bread with something like jam or honey?

    Well jam or honey dont lower cholesterol where the spreads are clinically proven, once you intake a serving equivalent to about 2g of the stanol esters.


  • #4
    Atlantic1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 368 ✭✭Atlantic1


    Thank you both for taking the time and trouble to reply to my query, but I think neither of you has answered it.

    My cholesterol level was reasonably high so the doc put me on a 10mg Crestor tablet.

    I just want to know, will I have a lower cholesterol level by using a cholesterol lowering spread on bread or by not using the spread at all.

    In other words, if I use the spread, will it actively lower the cholesterol level below what it would be, if I didn't use the spread at all?

    Thanks again. :)


  • #5
    shamrock55
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    as far as i know cholesterol lowering spread isnt a less fattening aternative to other spreads it actually does lower cholesterol


  • #6
    EileenG
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    If you are taking medication, I would talk to your doctor before you take anything else which claims to lower cholesterol, or you run the risk of interactions.


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  • #7
    mloc
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    Ice. wrote: »
    Reducing your intake of dietary cholesterol.

    This will not have a significant effect on your blood cholesterol level.


  • #8
    Compak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 428 ✭✭Compak


    EileenG wrote: »
    If you are taking medication, I would talk to your doctor before you take anything else which claims to lower cholesterol, or you run the risk of interactions.

    Always good advice.The use of stanol esters is a safe and effective approach for people on statin therapy. The result is equivalent to an extra 10% reduction in LDL levels akin to doubling the statin dose. A welcome approach to reduce the side effects of high dose statin therapy. Stanol Esters are one of the few supplements/functional foods approved by the EU as being effective.

    One thing is to ensure to get levels rechecked after circa 8 weeks. With proper diet (high fruit veg and fibre, low saturated fat) combined with exercise you should be able to reduce your crestor dose or if it was just a starting dose stop the dose from being increased.


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