Nov 15

Using Low Cholesterol Recipes To Lower Cholesterol

If you have seen your doctor recently for the results of your cholesterol blood test, then it’s probably because you have some valid concerns about your diet, the part cholesterol plays in this diet, and have lots of questions about what foods are able to lower your cholesterol and how you can change your cooking to a more cholesterol friendly diet.

Now, eating a good diet can be very straight forward. First of all you should be eating a diet that contains lots of fresh fruits and vegetables (the healthy carbohydrates), as well as protein from legumes (dried beans, peas and lentils), and meats or dairy products.

But this is where it starts getting a little difficult. Animal products, and this includes butter, meat, poultry, eggs and cheese, everything that comes from an animal contain cholesterol, with butter, egg yolks and red meats being the worst cholesterol offenders.

For your cooking and recipes, you need to try to include as many low cholesterol foods as you can, while you also work on lowering the volume of high cholesterol foods.

The result will be a lowering of the risk that you have for strokes and heart attacks.

The protein that these foods provide is vital for the health of your internal organs, and for building strong tendons and muscles, as well as maintaining bones, hair, blood and skin. So, somehow you still need to have this protein in your diet, but it doesn’t have to be from high cholesterol foods available. Fish can also supply your diet with protein, and fish is a good source too, especially herring, sardines, and salmon which contain the omega 3 fatty acids that your body also requires.

Milk too has protein, but because it is an animal product it too has fat so you need to drink skim milk, or 1% milk in place of whole milk or 2%. If your family is used to drinking the higher fat milk, you may get some complaints to start with, but in time, if you still buy the better choices, they will probably come to get used to it.

Instead of cooking with butter (animal product), try using olive oil (plant product) in its place, especially the virgin olive oil which is less processed than the light olive oils. In fact the light olive oil refers to the color, and not the number of calories it contains – very misleading when we are used to light meaning less calories.

One way of lowering the fat level in baking is to use mashed bananas, apple sauce or pureed prunes instead of the fat, and this also gives you more fruit in your diet too.

Almonds, walnuts, peanuts and some other nuts are good for you when you are worried about lowering your cholesterol, but make sure you only eat a handful a day, or you will be devouring too many calories which is generally not a good idea.

If you are making hamburgers, you can throw in some oats, as this is a great food to help you lower your cholesterol. Pulses are legumes as they are also known, or more commonly, dried beans, peas and lentils are also effective cholesterol lowering foods and they contain soluble fibre, as do apples, pears and barley.

There are a lot more hints and tips about foods with low cholesterol as well as cholesterol lowering foods and recipes here .

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