Thanks Candace! I will certainly post an update at the end of September when we are both due to go back in for re-tests.Originally Posted by Catty1
Broil, Steam and Poach!
If you have high cholesterol level, you have to eat foods rich in fiber like oats and whole grains. Fiber can dissolve the bad cholesterol in the blood. The carbohydrates in oats, wheat, and corn can also help keep your cholesterol level within manageable levels.
Vegetables are good sources of vitamins and minerals. A vegetarian diet is going to be helpful for people with high cholesterol levels. A lot of vegetables contain fiber, beta carotene, and Vitamin K that promote the health of the blood, heart, and almost all internal organs.[/SIZE]
Take a good Omega 3 supplement as well.
Good luck - can hardly wait for the updates and seeing the numbers come down!
I plan to add more fiber to our diet and eat more like vegetarians. We will eat some chicken, turkey and fish but just a few times per week. Lot's of steamed veggies though!
Karen Wrote:I'm definitely on the look out for soy and staying away from it. I once read somewhere that the soy bean was used for thousands of years by asians but for non-edible purposes, like textiles etc.. and that only in recent history soy was introduced to western culture as a food. Anyone know if that's true?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.
Olive oil is so great. Mediterraneans seem to live very long life spans and this oil being a main part of the diet probably has something to do with it I would think. I plan to use this more than usual from now on!
Pam wrote:I'm going to try and lower my numbers with just diet at first and if they just aren't budging, I'll definitely look into the Red Yeast Rice as a statin. Thanks for the suggestion.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 wrote:Cheese will be the hardest thing to give up I think. It is so very yummy!!! I'll see about getting some of the Frigo string cheese if we have it here in Canada. I might also keep some low fat mozzarella made with skimmed milk in the fridge for cheese emergencies.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.
Thankfully I LOVE beans! My husband is not such a huge fan but I'll work on that.
Laura's Babies wrote:Thanks for the info on statins. I had no idea and it's important stuff to know.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!.
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).
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
I do want to try and stay away from processed things and will try and stick to whole foods as much as I can. I'm going to pass on margerine and just skip butter altogether. I hope to bring down the cholesterol numbers with diet alone so we'll see how it goes. Thanks for the info and I will check out that video!
Reggie wrote:Baking is the way to go, I agree! And when we do eat meat, it will be chicken or turkey.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.
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