Yummy low cholesterol treats or meals?

[Emeraldgreen]

Wow! You are a wealth of knowledge!
I'm going to re-read this in the morning before I head out to the grocery store. I'm off to bed right now.
Thanks for the tips. Unfortunately I have to stay away from Soy stuff because it hurts my stomach soooooooooo much. I'm in an unbelievable amount of pain if I eat anything that is primarily made up of soy. It makes me sad because I love the taste of veggie burgers and even veggie hot dogs!
Thanks again for posting all this great info!

[Karen]

Wow! You are a wealth of knowledge!
I'm going to re-read this in the morning before I head out to the grocery store. I'm off to bed right now.
Thanks for the tips. Unfortunately I have to stay away from Soy stuff because it hurts my stomach soooooooooo much. I'm in an unbelievable amount of pain if I eat anything that is primarily made up of soy. It makes me sad because I love the taste of veggie burgers and even veggie hot dogs!
Thanks again for posting all this great info!

So definitely stay away from soy, your body is reacting badly to it, and it will only get worse with time.

Oatmeal - oatmeal cookies if you don't like oatmeal for breakfast. If you make them with egg white, not the whole egg, I'm not sure how that will effect the taste but it will take away the cholesterol.

Veggies - nice steamed veggies, I miss eating the ones I am now allergic to. But it's summertime - a nice salad of ripe tomatoes, basil and a little salt and maybe olive oil and vinegar - no cholesterol needed!

Olive oil is the oil for you to use for salad dressings, etc, as it lowers the bad cholesterol without effecting the good kind.

Veggies and more veggies!

[Pam]

If your doctor hasn't started you on statins I would suggest trying Red Yeast Rice. It is a natural supplement and can be found at any supermarket or drug store. I began taking it, along with cutting out lots of dairy and eating oatmeal and cheerios for breakfast, and brought my numbers down. My own doctor calls it the closest thing to a statin.

[Rachel]

We try to eat these types of foods for the same reason. One of the hardest thing for me was to cut waaaay back on the cheese. I keep some low fat string cheese on hand for when I just NEED to have a bit. Frigo is a good brand as some of them taste like cardboard.

As for the margarine, we use Smart Balance which is supposed to be a healthy formula and no transfat.

One thing I would emphasize is BEANS. We have red beans (dark red kidney beans) and rice (prepared with canned tomatoes, sauteed celery and green pepper). We also make a bean soup prepared with Great Northern Beans. And a similar beans and rice dish prepared with Butter Beans.

[Laura's Babies]

Red Yeast Rice is a statin, just a natural one and you can have the same side efects on that as you can on a man made statin. Be sure you take CoQ-10 with any statin you take as statin drugs deplete the body of this and every cell in your body needs this!.

Good foods to help lower cholesterol
Oatmeal
Walnuts
Blueberries
1- glass red wine a day
Metamucil
Flax seed

Aviod processed foods or anything tampered with by man. Aviod ANYTHING with Partially Hydrogenated oils, also watch out for the food industry creatively naming things. Interesterified oil, monoglycinate, mono and diglycinate are all names for hydrogenated oil! (Read lables on everything!) If Hydrogenated or Partially Hydrogenated is included anywhere in the ingredients list it has trans fat regardless of what other boasts the product makes. Fully Hydrogenated oils do not contain trans fats, but Partially Hydrogenated oils do. Also, it is equally as important to note the Saturated Fat content, and be careful not to substitute Trans Fats with Saturated (which contribute significantly to LDL (bad cholesterol).

Statin Alternatives
1) Buffered Aspirin - 81 mg (contains beneficial magnesium)
2) CoQ10 - 100 to 150 mg (Gelcaps - NOT powdered) with small amount of Vitamin E)
3) Folic Acid - 400-800 mcg
B6 - 80-100mg
B12 - 200-250mcg
All 3 of the B Vitamins above control Homocysteine (Hcy)
~ OR... take a B Complex or multi-vitamin that contains these B Vitamin amounts
4) Omega 3 (fish oil, cod liver oil or krill oil) [ There is no upper limit]
Cod liver oil has the added benefit of vitamins A & D.

Eating healthy and changing to a healthy lifestyle will save your life. Avoid taking man made drugs if there is another way to correct the problem.

Dr. Golomb has studied statin drugs side effects. Here is a great video she did on some of her resluts. It is a hour long but well worth the time it takes to watch it. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FG-IARKXS4Q

[Hellow]

Hmm, i think Chicken is low in cholesterol. We eat it often and we are very healthy! Just remember to cook it in the oven, cooking it in a frying pan with grease obviously raises cholesterol.