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5 Step Diet To Lower Cholesterol!

If you're worried about lowering your cholesterol level you're
not alone. Changing your diet to lower cholesterol is usually
the first step in cholesterol maintenance, before medicines are
added. People who have high cholesterol may be able to lower
their cholesterol levels with these simple lifestyle changes:

Step 5) The School of Medicine at Stanford University did a
study consisting of 377 men and post-menopausal women, with high
cholesterol. First they put them on a low-fat diet, and then had
half of them to do aerobic exercise, and the other half did no
form of exercise at all.

After one year, the exercising group had significantly reduced
their cholesterol levels – while the sedentary group showed no
such reduction in their cholesterol. So the 5th step is to add
aerobic exercise to your lifestyle.

Step 4) Did you know that the average person makes about 75% of
their blood cholesterol in their own liver, while only about 25%
is absorbed from food. So you should be able to further reduce
your cholesterol with dietary changes.

A low-fat diet with no trans-fats will lower your cholesterol
anywhere from 8% to 20%. There are several very good low-fat
diets – the Dash Diet, Mediterranean Diet, the South Beach Diet,
Ultra metabolism Diet, and Weight Watchers Diet are all great
diets to reduce your fat and trans-fat intake. All of these
diets have either online programs or manuals and books to
provide step-by-step instructions and menu plans. So your 4th
step is to add a reduced fat diet.

Step 3) One of the reasons your body produces Cholesterol is a
self preservation tactic. Your arteries develop cracks and
stress fractures as a natural occurrence. Your body must patch
these cracks and fractures or you will bleed to death.

The substance of choice for your body to use is Collagen.
However, if the raw ingredients needed aren't present in
sufficient quantities to produce this miraculous elixir,
cholesterol can also be used instead.

So to keep your collagen production at its peak, rather than
giving your liver a reason to produce additional cholesterol,
give your body plenty of vitamin C (ascorbic acid). Your 3rd
step is to add vitamin C (ascorbic acid) to your diet.

Step 2) 60 recent heart bypass surgery patients were divided
into groups. The first group had no dietary restrictions, while
the second and third group had one white or one red grapefruit
each day.

The second and third group had significantly lowered
cholesterol levels while the no grapefruit group showed no
reduction. But the red grapefruit group also had a reduction in
their triglycerides. So step 2 is "Eat Red Grapefruit", which
will incidentally help with step 3 as well.

Step 1) A study of 14,600 men and women ages 45 to 75, recently
showed the participants' total cholesterol declined as their
number of meals per day increased. Those who ate five or six
times a day had the lowest total cholesterol, on average
approximately 5% lower, while the highest measurements were
found among those who ate only one or two meals a day. So your
number 1 step, and incidentally the easiest, is to eat five or
six small meals a day, rather than one or two large ones.

If you find a diet to lower cholesterol and follow these 5
steps, you should have your cholesterol to healthy levels as
quickly as possible.