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Cholesterol lowering foods

  • 18-05-2011 7:19pm
    #1
    G-Money
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    I'm looking to reduce my cholesterol level and while I've got some literature about what to eat and not eat, the food looks a bit bland.

    Got any tips to add flavourings to dinners and lunches without increasing cholesterol? Any spices I can add? I normally throw in sauce of some sort but I want to avoid that. But I don't know how to healthily flavour the food.

    Any tips?


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  • #2
    EileenG
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    As a general rule, you can add herbs and spices ad lib to any diet without significantly affecting calories, carbs or cholesterol. I'm a huge fan of Tabasco as well. A couple of drops will give a kick to anything.

    However, I would suggest you do some reading on this board about cholesterol, as the knee-jerk reaction to high cholesterol is often to cut out all foods containing fat, and attempt to live on brown rice and egg whites. Not a recipe for success.

    Do you have a breakdown of your cholesterol ratios? What is your HDL and LDL, and do you know your triglyceride levels?


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