All Blog Posts Tagged 'fats' (6)

Whole-fat dairy products

The list below will help make eating 6 meals a day easy. When you are picking out what to eat plan ahead for the next day. When you are shopping take this list with you. It will help you make wise choices. Below are helpful hints on eating healthy. … Continue

Good news if you live in California! Starting in 2010 restaurants will be banned from using trans fats in food preparation. This will be a major benefit to those of you struggling to lower total cholesterol, low LDL "bad" cholesterol, or raise HDL "good" cholesterol. To improve your lipid profile you should follow a diet with less than 30% daily calories from fat. Ide… Continue

As much as I love eating avocados today, it's hard to image that I didn't taste my first one until I was well into my twenties. I grew up in a small town in a small New England state. Our foods of choice leaned more toward clam cakes and chowder than tacos and enchiladas. Avocado? I hadn't a clue what one was. And don't even get me going about guacomole.… Continue

Here’s a checklist of the top 8 things you must do if you want to successfully lower your cholesterol and keep it low. Know your numbers Have you had a lipid profile? Do you understand the numbers? If you are going to successfully lower cholesterol you need to know your numbers and what they mean. The most effective way to raise HDL is not necessarily the best way to lower LDL. Evaluate your lifestyle There are risk factors for high cholesterol that you can not control, such as… Continue

Healthy fats Healthy fats can lower your risk of heart disease by reducing the total and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels in your blood. Cholesterol, which your body produces for building cells, is the main substance in fatty deposits (plaques) that can develop i… Continue

To understand how lifestyle affects our heart health, let’s take a look at how cholesterol works in the body. The liver produces and the diet provides cholesterol, which is carried by LDL (the “bad” cholesterol) throughout the body, serving vital functions. The HDL then shuttles t… Continue