High Cholesterol Foods

We are surrounded by high-Cholesterol food. It is hard to avoid. Yet we still have the ability to make low-cholesterol or cholesterol-free foods, or foods that will lower our cholesterol levels. It is still our choice. We can go shopping with a list and bring home heart-healthy groceries. Fresh vegetables, fruits, and meats that fall in the food pyramid and still allow us to eat a tasty diet low in saturated fats.

High cholesterol foods are primarily fatty foods. Fats can be divided into saturated, unsaturated, and trans fats. Saturated fats are fats that are solid at room temperatures like those found on a beef steak. These are the worse for you. Unsaturated and polyunsaturated are in fruit and vegetable oils like olive, canola, etc. These fats are more heart friendly than the unsaturated ones and should be substituted in place of the saturated fats whenever possible. Trans fats are a more recent invention and are as hazardous as the saturated fats to the heart. Heart doctors have termed the saturated fats and the trans fats as 'the bad fats'. These should be limited to about ten percent of your daily caloric intake. 

Saturated fats and trans fats - the bad fats - are found in all kinds of confections like off-the-shelf cupcakes, donuts, cookies, etc. French fries are loaded with trans fats. Dairy products such as cheese, whole milk, whipping cream, and ice cream contain saturated fats and cholesterol. All animal products contain cholesterol.   

The daily diet for many Americans consists of about 70 percent carbohydrates and 30 percent saturated fats. Obviously, this is a high-cholesterol diet and leads to heart disease. And is demonstrated by the fact that heart disease is still the number one killer in the United States. A scary fact that has come to light of late is that many children are becoming obese and are believed to have the beginning stages of atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries. Over 60 percent of American adults are overweight and doctors believe that the real culprit is high-cholesterol foods.

Change of Diet

Dieting is a big industry in the United States. But it is based on a false premise. You can't diet by cutting back on the typical 70 percent carbohydrates and 30 percent saturated fats diet pointed out above, this will have little affect. What you must do is get away from the high-cholesterol foods and change your diet to a more 'paleolithic' one that is the diet that our ancestors ate - it sure wasn't fast food. They ate a diet of nuts, fruits, roots, assorted critters, and when they were lucky enough to kill an animal, they ate meat. Our digestive systems grew around what our ancestors ate. I doubt if they were obese, but I'm sure that their arteries and veins were as healthy when they died as when the day they were born. 

It is possible to lower your high cholesterol through a natural diet without the use of potentially harmful medications. After all early man didn't take medications and our bodies are the same physiology as they had. Of course you should always listen to your heart doctor, he or she can guide you to lower cholesterol. But at the same time there are methods to lower cholesterol which are without medication and are natural. 

One such cure is 'The 60 Day Prescription Free Cholesterol Cure'   a book that will show you how to lower your cholesterol naturally in just two months. Click on the link to read about it.

More favorably balanced meals may be obtained from Chef's Diet .  Their meals are based on 40 percent carbohydrate, 30 percent protein, and 30 percent favorable fats.