PPSI Cholesterol Saturated fat is the chief culprit in raising blood cholesterol levels. These fats should be used in place of other fats in your diet whenever possible. http://www.ppsinc.org/chol/chol05.htm
Extractions: Lowering you cholesterol can be accomplished in the following manner. Eating a low-cholesterol, low-fat diet; losing weight if you're overweight; and maintaining a moderate exercise program can help you lower your blood cholesterol and keep it low. Given all the advantages of good health, these small investments promise big rewards. A more detailed look into these steps is given below: Cholesterol levels begin to get unhealthy when we add too much of it through our diets. For instance, animal products such as meat, milk, and eggs have cholesterol in them, sometimes at high levels. The body also produces extra cholesterol as a result of eating foods high in saturated fat. In the pursuit of a healthy heart, keep these guidelines in mind: Limit your cholesterol intake. The American Heart Association recommends limiting your daily cholesterol intake to less than 300 milligrams. If you have coronary heart disease, it should be no more than 200 milligrams. Nutritional labeling on most products indicates cholesterol content. Note: Cholesterol is found in all meat and dairy products, but is not contained in vegetables, fruit, or grains.
Extractions: About Us Contact Us Our Members Home Cocoa Basics WCF Programs Library Stats Bean to Bar The Cocoa Plant Cocoa Farming Sustainable Cocoa Growing WCF Sustainable Cocoa Program ... Health and Nutrition : Serum Cholesterol The National Cholesterol Education Program has increased public awareness of the need to reduce saturated fat intake . However, the relative effects of specific saturated fatty acids on blood lipids is not fully understood by most consumers. Cocoa butter is the fat that occurs naturally in cocoa beans. The U.S. government standards of identity for chocolate specify that cocoa butter is the only fat that is allowed in all types of chocolate except milk chocolate, which contain approximately 80 percent fat from cocoa butter and 20 percent from milk fat. Cocoa butter, like all fats, is composed of several fatty acids. The percentage composition of major fatty acids in cocoa butter is as follows: Stearic and palmitic acid are saturated fatty acids, oleic is a monounsaturated fatty acid linoleic is a polyunsaturated fatty acid.
Feature Article Lipids include total cholesterol, HDL (good) cholesterol, LDL (bad) cholesterol, triglycerides and phospholipids (other forms of fat in the blood). http://www.infoaging.org/feat12.html
Extractions: Infoaging Correspondent Over the past three-four decades, the knowledge of the role of lipids, fat-like substances in the blood, in disease states has grown exponentially. Lipids include total cholesterol, HDL (good) cholesterol, LDL (bad) cholesterol, triglycerides and phospholipids (other forms of fat in the blood). Fats are carried in the blood attached to proteins and called lipoproteins. An examination of all of these fatty substances in the blood is often called a lipoprotein or lipid profile There have been three major/seminal studies resulting in extensive reports about lipids during the past ten years. They came out of the National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health under the title of "The National Cholesterol Education Program." First, the Adult Treatment Panel I (ATP I) in 1991, followed by ATP II in 1993, and ATP III in 2001 (1-3). In each of these reports, new research has provided additional information, and often revision of prior recommendations. Therefore, it is important for people to educate themselves, and most critically, to contact their doctors about reports in this ever-changing field.
Extractions: PDF Version Search Send-to-Friend Health Library Home Adapted from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute by HealthGate Editorial Staff To lower your blood cholesterol level, choose only the leanest meats, poultry, fish and shellfish. Choose chicken and turkey without skin or remove skin before eating. Some fish, like cod, have less saturated fat than either chicken or meat. Since even the leanest meat, chicken, fish, and shellfish have saturated fat and cholesterol, limit the total amount you eat to six ounces or less per day. Poultry In general, chicken and turkey are low in saturated fat, especially when the skin is removed. When shopping for poultry remember that you can buy chicken and turkey pieces with the skin already removed. Or buy pieces with the skin on and remove it yourself before eating-it's easy to do. Remember, the white meat itself always contains less saturated fat than the dark meat. Limit goose and duck. They are high in saturated fat, even with the skin removed. Try fresh ground turkey or chicken that is made from white meat like the breast. Remember that some chicken and turkey hot dogs are lower in saturated fat and total fat than pork and beef hot dogs. There are also "lean" beef hot dogs and vegetarian (made with tofu) franks that are low in fat and saturated fat. Fish and shellfish When shopping for fish and shellfish remember that most fish is lower in saturated fat and cholesterol than meat or poultry. Shellfish varies in cholesterol content. Shellfish have little saturated fat and total fat. Even shrimp can be enjoyed occasionally provided you eat less than 300 milligrams of cholesterol a day. For example, 3 ounces of steamed shrimp has 167 milligrams of cholesterol.
Cholesterol And Heart Health cholesterol is a lipid (that is, a fatlike substance) that is essential other ways of reducing consumption of saturated fat include eating lean red http://www.nutritionaustralia.org/Food_Facts/FAQ/cholesterol_faq.asp
Extractions: The following series of questions/answers concerns current knowledge about cholesterol and its effects on heart health. Cholesterol is a 'lipid' (that is, a fat-like substance) that is essential for animal life. It is an integral component of every cell in the human body, it is used to make vitamin D (which is produced from cholesterol just under the skin, using sunlight for energy), it is necessary for the absorption of essential fatty acids from our intestines, and it is required for the production of the sex hormones. Cholesterol is transported in the blood from the liver (where it is produced) and from the small intestine (where it is absorbed from digested food), to the tissues where it is needed. The blood transports most of the cholesterol in a form known as LDL. LDL is commonly known as the 'bad' cholesterol (it is strongly associated with increased risk of heart disease). Another cholesterol-containing substance in the blood (HDL) collects surplus cholesterol from the tissues and takes it away for disposal. Because it 'cleans up' excess cholesterol, HDL is often called the 'good' cholesterol (it helps protect against heart disease).
Diabetes Forecast December 2003 - Research Profile - American each participant s blood sugars, cholesterol, and other measures of metabolism. That has happened with fat, when it was said that fat was bad. http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-forecast/dec2003/research.jsp
Cholesterol And Diet Information cholesterol, Diet and other Risk Factors. You can lower your cholesterol level by switching to a lowerfat diet thus reducing intake of animal fat and http://www.annecollins.com/cholesterol-diet.htm
Extractions: Bagels Cholesterol in Beef Butter Cake ... Cholesterol Foods Cholesterol is a waxy, fat-like substance that is made in the body by the liver. Cholesterol forms part of every cell in the body and serves a number of vital functions. Sometimes, however, our bodies make more cholesterol than we need, and this excess cholesterol circulates in the bloodstream. High levels of cholesterol in the blood can clog blood vessels and increase the risk for heart disease and stroke. Our bodies make too much cholesterol when we eat too much saturated fat in our diet. Saturated fat is the kind of fat found in animal-based foods such as meat and dairy products. We also get some cholesterol directly from animal-based foods in our diet such as meat, eggs, and dairy products. Plant foods such as fruits, vegetables, and grains do not contain cholesterol. Due to the high saturated fat content of the average diet, more than one-half of American adults have blood cholesterol levels that are too high.
Extractions: AAACN Viewpoint ABNF Journal, The AIDS Treatment News AMAA Journal ... View all titles in this topic Hot New Articles by Topic Automotive Sports Top Articles Ever by Topic Automotive Sports Diet vs. diet: to "low-carb" or not to "low-carb" - research profile Diabetes Forecast Dec, 2003 by Terri Kordella Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. MARY C. GANNON, PHD Occupation Research Chemist, Director of the Metabolic Research Laboratory, and Professor, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center And the University of Minnesota Professional Focus Diet and blood sugar control in people with type 2 diabetes Outside Interests Travel, scuba diving
The Dr. Rath Health Foundation | Responsibility For A Healthy World However, cholesterol and all other blood risk factors are considered only Thus, elevated blood levels of cholesterol and other blood risk factors are http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/NHC/cholesterol/cellular_solutions.htm
Extractions: Skip directly to Content HOMEPAGE Take a look at our redesigned website now! The leading website on natural health! Learn more about Cellular Health Conventional medicine Modern Cellular Medicine provides a new understanding about the factors causing the rise of cholesterol and other secondary risk factors, as well as their natural prevention. Cholesterol, triglycerides, low-density lipoproteins (LDL), lipoprotein (a) and other metabolic products are ideal repair factors, and their blood levels increase in response to a structural weakening of the artery walls. A chronic weakness of the blood vessel walls increases the demand and, thereby, the production rate of these repair molecules in the liver. Cellular Medicine Scientific research and clinical studies The temporary rise in cholesterol is an additional sign of the healing process in the artery walls and the decreasing of fatty deposits. The mechanism described here is, of course, not only valid for cholesterol, but also for triglycerides, LDL, lipoprotein (a) and other secondary risk factors, which have accumulated over decades inside the artery walls and have been slowly released into the bloodstream.
RESEARCH: PECAN-RICH DIET AS EFFECTIVE AS LOWER-FAT AHA DIET containing pecans can help control cholesterol levels and other biomarkers of heart A pecan-rich diet containing 40 percent of daily energy as fat, http://agnews.tamu.edu/dailynews/stories/HORT/May1201a.htm
Extractions: Contacts: Dr. Rosemary Walzem, (979) 845-7537; Maggie Francis, American Heart Association, (214) 706-1397 Research findings were presented May 11 at the AHA's second annual Conference on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology in Arlington, Va. Walzem said, "Other factors that signal cardiovascular disease development, such as vascular inflammation, improved as much with the pecan-rich diet as they did with a lower fat AHA Step I diet." The research was compelling in light of an ongoing controversy about using high carbohydrate diets to reduce heart disease risk. Such diets raise triglycerides in some individuals, she said. The researchers studied 40 hypercholesterolemic men and women between the ages of 22 and 71, all of whom had already been eating a fairly low-fat diet (32 percent daily energy intake). For eight weeks, participants were placed on either:
Scientist Questions Benefits Of Low Fat Diets 3/27/02 Highfat foods raise blood cholesterol. Dr. Ancel Keys was one of the main Physicians and other health professionals as well as anyone threatened with http://www.mercola.com/2002/mar/27/low_fat_diets.htm
Extractions: Health Rankings Essential Info Health Blog My Vision My Qualifications #1 Natural Health Website ... More... Health Resources Nutrition Plan Fewer Grains/Sugars More Omega-3 More Water ... E-mail to a Friend By Sally Fallon Epidemiological studies do not support the notion that diets high in animal fats cause heart disease. For instance, mortality from coronary heart disease in southern India was found to be seven times higher than in the north and people in the south died on average 8 years earlier, despite the fact that people in the north ate 19 times more fat (mostly animal fat) and also smoked much more. In addition, the Masai people (Kenya) probably have the highest intake of animal fat in the world, but studies have shown that abnormalities on electrocardiography were far less frequent than in Americans and raised atherosclerotic lesions were rare. In 33 countries, an increased intake of animal fat was followed by an increased coronary morality in 30 time periods, but in 23 other time periods an increased fat intake was followed by a decreased mortality.
Cholesterol & Saturated Fat - Ask The Dietitian Got questions about cholesterol, Saturated Fat or Heart Disease? Any vegetables or fruit other than avocado are very low in fat if boiled, http://www.dietitian.com/choleste.html
Extractions: Polyunsaturated oils that are hydrogenated can contain some trans fat, but it depends on the hydrogenation process that was used. Trans fat results when polyunsaturated oil (soybean) is partially hydrogenated in order to make it into stick margarine or solid shortening in a can. One polyunsaturated margarine though is now claiming to be trans fatty acid free. The FDA is considering requiring trans fatty acid levels to be listed on food labels , but currently does not require trans fat amounts. You can only tell if a margarine is trans fat free if the margarine has a claim on the label that says "trans fatty acid free". Research has found that trans fatty acids increases the bad cholesterol and decreases the good cholesterol even though it started out as a good polyunsaturated fat before hydrogenation. One alternative is butter. but it is a saturated fat which increases the bad cholesterol in your blood.
Heart Healthy Eating: Cholesterol, Fat, Fiber, & Sodium Eating mostly saturated fat will raise blood cholesterol levels. Some kinds of fiber help lower blood cholesterol levels; other kinds help regulate your http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/nutrition/348-898/348-898.html
Extractions: References Everyone wants to be healthy. (Wealthy and wise, too!) What you eat and do can help you stay healthy. In recent years, there has been much emphasis on changing one's diet to reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer, as these two diseases are the major causes of death in this country. How to prevent and detect these diseases in the early stages while they are treatable are major areas of study. Too often, the first symptom of heart disease is a fatal heart attack or stroke. Imagine the excitement of doctors when they found that a high level of cholesterol in the blood was often associated with heart disease. The cholesterol content of the blood can be measured by a simple blood test. Dietary and lifestyle changes usually can lower blood cholesterol levels to acceptable ranges for most people - no expensive tests or surgery are required; not even medicine for most persons. Many of the dietary changes that help to reduce one's risk of heart disease also appear to reduce the risks of cancer. This publication offers suggestions on how to make those dietary changes.
Choose A Diet Low In Fat... Saturated fat raises blood cholesterol more than other forms of fat. Reducing saturated fat to less than 10 percent of calories will help you lower your http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/dga/dga95/lowfat.html
Extractions: Some dietary fat is needed for good health. Fats supply energy and essential fatty acids and promote absorption of the fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K. Most people are aware that high levels of saturated fat and cholesterol in the diet are linked to increased blood cholesterol levels and a greater risk for heart disease. More Americans are now eating less fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol-rich foods than in the recent past, and fewer people are dying from the most common form of heart disease. Still, many people continue to eat high-fat diets, the number of overweight people has increased, and the risk of heart disease and certain cancers (also linked to fat intake) remains high. This guideline emphasizes the continued importance of choosing a diet with less total fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol. Some foods and food groups in the Food Guide Pyramid are higher in fat than others. Fats and oils, and some types of desserts and snack foods that contain fat provide calories but few nutrients. Many foods in the milk group and in the meat and beans group (which includes eggs and nuts, as well as meat, poultry, and fish) are also high in fat, as are some processed foods in the grain group. Choosing lower fat options among these foods allows you to eat the recommended servings from these groups and increase the amount and variety of grain products, fruits, and vegetables in your diet without going over your calorie needs.
Corr: The Low Fat/low Cholesterol Diet Is Ineffective other trials of secondary prevention have to a greater or lesser extent tried Low fat, low cholesterol diet in secondary prevention of coronary disease. http://www.omen.com/corr.html
Extractions: St. Thomas Street, London SE1 9RT The origin of the 'low fat' diet The evidence from clinical trials It can be argued that it is virtually impossible to design and conduct an adequate dietary trial. The alteration of any one component of a diet will lead to alterations in others and often to further changes in lifestyle so it is extremely difficult to determine which, if any, of these produce an effect. Dietary trials cannot generally be blinded and changes in the diet of the 'control' population are frequently seen: they may be so marked as to render the study irrevocably flawed. It is also recognized that adherence to dietary advice over many years by large population samples, as for most people in real life, is poor and that the stricter the diet, the worse the compliance. Nonetheless, the evidence for a reduction in saturated fat from dietary trials for both primary and secondary prevention merits closer scrutiny. Trials of low fat diets in primary prevention There have been six randomized, controlled trials with the long-term follow-up designed to modify the development of coronary heart disease in healthy subjects [6-11]. Remarkably, no primary prevention trial of sufficient size or sensitivity to examine the effect of a low total and saturated fat diet alone has ever been conducted. All six primary prevention trials involved alteration of one or more other risk factors such as cigarette smoking, blood pressure and exercise.
Mike's Calorie And Fat Gram Chart For 1000 Foods Has calorie and fat gram chart for 1000 foods sorted by carbohydrates, cholesterol, protein, and fat listed alphabetically. Provides health and fitness http://www.caloriecountercharts.com/
Extractions: recognizing its value to their readership Hi, I'm posting my modified version of the standard foods Calorie and Fat Gram Chart to help you in your weight loss / health journey. I have posted Calorie and Fat Gram charts in varying formats. One chart has foods sorted Alphabetically. Other editions include foods sorted by Grams of Fat, low to high, Cholesterol, low to high, Protein content, high to low, and finally a new chart which focuses on Carbohydrate content, low to high, so we can see at a glance the foods we should be eating. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is the source of all the nutritional information posted in my charts. If you have any special chart requests please let me know and I will try to accommodate. Be sure to check out the "Cool Links" section where you will find nutritional search tools, lowfat recipes and lots of other terrific and useful health information. If you have found this site to be helpful please don't forget to bookmark for easy future reference. I have also added quick links to Amazon.com where you can quickly and easily find Health, Nutrition, and Fitness books.
Extractions: Web posted at: 5:12 p.m. EST (2212 GMT) The choice between margarine and butter may become easier thanks to a recent study ATLANTA (CNN) Which is the lesser of two evils when putting spread on your bread cholesterol-laden butter or margarine containing trans fatty acids? New research shows the best choice may be a specific kind of margarine already found on supermarket shelves. A study presented this week at the American Heart Association's conference in Dallas found a diet that uses low-trans or trans-free margarine, usually sold in tubs or liquid form, is a heart-healthy butter alternative. The study, by Dr. Margo Denke of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, tested whether a margarine-based diet rather than a butter-based diet can lower cholesterol as much as medication can. She used only margarines low in trans fatty acids.
