High Cholesterol Foods

Fast food usually contains large amounts cholesterol producing bad fats, sodium, and sugars. Processed foods may be a close second. You have to examine the Nutrition Facts label to know for sure. These foods may be classified as high cholesterol foods.

Their consumption should be limited or just cut out of the diet altogether. They are manufactured to produce the most pleasurable sensations for the taste buds, but eating them may not only cause your cholesterol levels to rise (and waistlines to grow) but also put you in line for diabetes.

Soda Pop

Soda pop might not raise your cholesterol directly, but does play havoc with your digestive system. Every time you drink a can of pop you introduce a lot of acid into your stomach which interferes with your stomach acid and the natural digestive process. Therefore, if you eat food with the pop it is not properly digested and you don't realize the full effect of the food. How this affects your body is not well known, but I would guess it has a negative impact.

The sugar and caffeine in regular soda pops have their own impacts on the various body systems. Studies have shown that even caffeine free pops are hazardous to a person's health.

Pop will weaken your bones by taking calcium from them.

There are a host of problems that can develop when you continuously drink soda pop. It's much healthier to drink a pulpy fruit juice or just plain water.

Practice Portion Control

Most of us are meat eaters. The problem comes in when we overeat a high cholesterol food like meat. Since only animals produce cholesterol, you can reduce the amount of cholesterol ingested by limiting the amount of animal products you eat i.e. practice portion control.

Portion control is important since it seems that today restaurants are serving larger and larger portions and these larger sizes of meals have made their way into many American homes. If you eat more - you ingest more bad fats and cholesterol. So you need to eat less of these foods - smaller, healthier portions.

Saturated fats and trans fats (bad fats) should make up less than 10% of the total daily calories. In a 2,000 calorie per day diet this is 23g or less than one ounce of bad fats. A lean, four-ounce steak or salmon is a healthy sized portion for a supper meal. Most people don't require any more than that.

Lean, small cuts of salmon, steak, and other meats or fish are good for you and won't affect your total cholesterol.

Grass fed beef is as close as we'll ever come to the natural meat that our ancestors ate. This meat is without any growth hormones.

Low Cholesterol - Natural Foods

Natural foods, or foods that you buy fresh and whole like you find in the produce and frozen foods section of a supermarket, are the best for your heart health and cholesterol levels. Because these foods are closest to the ones that our ancestors first ate, they are the ones that are the most beneficial for our physiologies.

Vegetables do not produce cholesterol. Eating fresh fruits and vegetables is extremely heart friendly. Their nutrients will lower cholesterol and protect your heart.

As a bonus - the high water and high fiber vegetables like celery, broccoli, tomatoes, etc also may be classified as negative calorie food. If you want to lose weight, gravitate toward these beauties. Not only do you get the heart-healthy effect from the food, but you will also lose weight eating them because they take more calories to digest than they give you. They are the real fat burners!

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