Foods To Avoid To Lower Cholesterol

Cholesterol is a huge difficulty in Western countries and the difficulty is spreading from older individuals to younger individuals and from Westerners to Easterners. Health authorities all over the world are warning of the heart disease time bomb that is ticking away. That is all well and good, but the problem is is that not a lot of individuals are listening until it is rather late.

One of the biggest worries is that people do not think before buying a meal or a snack - if they are hungry, they will merely buy a hamburger or a pie. Another big problem, is that the generation born in the Seventies did not learn how to cook, but instead depended on junk food. They have also passed that on to their children and so it goes on.

This state of affairs has led to the rise in heart disease. So, what can be done about it? Well, the best thing would be for individuals to go back forty or fifty years and start again, but since that is not likely, it is helpful to look into that earlier lifestyle and see how we differ these days from it.

Forty or fifty years ago, there were junk foodstuffs, but most people ate them only very occasionally. They went home to a cooked meal concocted either by their mother or their wife or they cooked it themselves. It is not important who cooked it, the fact that it was cooked at home is the relevant bit.

How often do you eat take-aways and how frequently do you eat home cooked meals - meals that were made from fresh, raw ingredients?

There were not so many labour-saving devices in those days, so people worked harder. 'Harder" I said, people probably work longer hours now, but they do not expend so much calories. In those days, individuals walked further and worked more strenuously and ate meals made from raw ingredients.

We do not do that now and those are the foremost reasons why we are all struggling with heart disease. OK, you have to be pretty far gone for it to get too late. You can implement lifestyle changes now and you will recover or you can take tablets and help to make the pharmaceuticals even wealthier.

If you want to do something about your condition, it is quite easy. The first thing to do is avoid red meat, full-fat dairy produce like milk, cream, butter and cheese and give up junk food, such as hamburgers, store-purchased pizzas, hot dogs, pies, pasties, crisps and chips entirely. This will greatly reduce most people's sources of the prime culprits of high cholesterol - namely, saturated fats and hydrogenated,or trans, fats..

The second thing to do is increase your intake of fresh fruit and vegetables. You should also eat more peas, beans, lentils, grains and nuts. Soya is also very (very) good for you.

Avoid eating animal skin of all kinds, because a lot of the fat content is in the skin and strive to replace red meat dishes with those prepared using fish, chicken and tofu.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on several subjects, and is now involved with low cholesterol diet recipes. If you would like to know more, please visit our site at What Foods Lower Cholesterol?