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Foods To Avoid To Lower Cholesterol

People basically just love to eat. Any free time they get they don't miss out on catching up on a meal. The meal specified here is not one of the three basic meals one has during the course of the day, but it is one the inter meal cravings one indulges in. In other words snack breaks.

Never does an individual pay attention to what exactly is the cholesterol content in the food they are consuming. Their ultimate pleasure lies only in the taste. These snacks oft picked up from fast food centers are extremely unhealthy and have high cholesterol content which has even encouraged McDonalds to mention the calorie content in every product.

The alarming growth in the number of obese and overweight people is something to watch out for is what the doctors have realized. The obvious implications of these are the number of people who would be prone to heart diseases and heart attacks would increase in USA.

Many suggestions have been made to try to curb this growing syndrome. It includes visiting the doctor annually and making changes to ones daily habits and lifestyle. The only way to reduce the cholesterol intake is to be conscious about your diet. This is the only way you could reduce the amount of it going into your system.

If your are wondering what kind of food is that which is very high in cholesterol content? What kind of food is it that you must avoid? Here it goes.

First and foremost if you are a voracious red meat eater, you must definitely cut down upon the amount of red meat you consume like steak, bacon and ham. They are extremely high in fat content.

Foregoing it at one instant will be hard for an individual, hence the age old technique of divide and conquer must be adopted. One can start by gradually decreasing the amount of such food content .The oil and constituent ingredients used to cook fried foods like burgers and French fries are a store house of cholesterol and fat. This list also includes frozen meals which have been prepackaged.

Diary and Poultry products like eggs, milk and chicken should be minimized in ones diet. To ensure that the body gets sufficient amount of calcium one can instead include milk (non-fat) and yogurt in the diet.

As kids one is not as much threat as an adult is with high intake of junk food. Eventually as one grows older the dietary necessities must be taken into consideration.

Above we have mentioned the food items one must avoid. Apart from fat and cholesterol these food items may consider other vital elements essential for a diet. Hence we shall look into substitutes for these food items.

Products such as fruits, soy, whole wheat grain and vegetables must be taken aplenty.

These products have omega 3 acids which reduce the cholesterol content in the human body apart from the essential vitamins and minerals required . One must adopt the motto of eat less and live long and make sure the diet one consumes must be within the limit of thirty percent of cholesterol. One can always visit a dietician for further guidance who will set up a daily dietary pattern with variations.