Eat More of These Foods to Lower Your Cholesterol
Advice on lowering your cholesterol usually focuses on what you have to cut out of your diet. But are there foods that you can actually eat more of to lower your cholesterol? Nutrition Diva explains
Advice on opens in a new window lowering your cholesterol usually focuses on cutting back on certain foods, such as butter, eggs, and meat. But a opens in a new windowrecent study shows that opens in a new windowadding cholesterol-reducing foods like oats and nuts can be 4 times more effective in opens in a new windowlowering cholesterol than limiting saturated fat. And when it comes to food, isn’t adding always more fun than subtracting?
Foods that Help Lower Your Cholesterol
opens in a new windowThe study, which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that adding these foods to your diet can help reduce LDL cholesterol by 13% over 6 months. (Cutting back on saturated fat only reduced cholesterol by 3%.)
- opens in a new windowSoy protein
- opens in a new windowNuts
- opens in a new windowOats
- Barley
- opens in a new windowDried Beans
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