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What follows is a Sample Diet for High Cholesterol. It works Quickly and Naturally.
From breakfast to Supper and in between, our diet for high cholesterol covers it all.
Sample diets for high cholesterol are essentially for the beginner who has just been diagnosed with elevated or high cholesterol.
The value of a sample diet for high cholesterol is that the sample diets allows one to immediately begin a diet for high cholesterol, without first knowing what a cholesterol diet is all about, or even what high cholesterol is and does.
This is the very big advantage of sample diets for high cholesterol - no thought, no experience and no thinking is really needed to use them.
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Lipi-Rite is made of quality natural ingredients that were selected for their ability to help regulate and maintain TRIGLYCERIDE and CHOLESTEROL levels. What more could you want? Click Lipi-Rite to read more about this fantastic all natural product |
According to the Baker Heart Research Institute, 2006, around 80% of people with life threatening high cholesterol levels mistakenly believe they have their high cholesterol problem under control, when they don't - ample proof that there is a genuine need for sample diets for high cholesterol, ones that actually work, to provide immediate direction and guidance until one understands the cholesterol beast, and it can be a very difficult beast to tame.
From my experience, I know that it can be bewildering when you are told your cholesterol level is too high and that you have to go on a high cholesterol diet - hence I wrote this sample diet for high cholesterol - covering the main meals and snacks of the day - to make things easier for the newly diagnosed or those whose high cholesterol is not coming down in spite of their best efforts.
Here I tell you what I eat in the normal course of a day - which makes for a very useful diet for high cholesterol that may well work for you, as my diet has done for me. Hopefully, this diet for high cholesterol, will be the start of your walk into understanding and victory.
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If you were lucky, when you were diagnosed with high cholesterol, you may have been given a piece of paper with a few diet tips on how to lower cholesterol, or a very vague type of sample diet outline to reduce cholesterol, which more than likely didn't work. |
By and large though, if you were like me, you suddenly didn't know what was safe and unsafe to eat and drink cholesterol wise, nor what foods, herbs, spices, vitamins and so on to use in your diet for high cholesterol.
So, I came up with this sample diet for high cholesterol, to fill that very real gap between finding out one has cholesterol problems and knowing what has to be done to lower cholesterol.
Reading everything on this web site may help you move away from sample diets for high cholesterol, to making your own personal diet to reduce high cholesterol, using those foods and so on that YOU like to eat.
My sample diet for high cholesterol is a stepping stone in your fight to reduce high cholesterol.
Our low cholesterol diet meal menu planner and our cholesterol and saturated fat charts may well be your next stepping stones after this page.
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Lipi-Rite is made of quality natural ingredients that were selected for their ability to help regulate and maintain TRIGLYCERIDE and CHOLESTEROL levels. What more could you want? Click Lipi-Rite to read more about this fantastic all natural product |
1 or 2 slices of toasted wholemeal OR whole grain bread - These types of breads actually help to lower your blood cholesterol, so are vitally important in any sample diet for high cholesterol!
Some days I use the 60% reduced fat margarine along with Vegemite ( a Marmite type of spread )
Other days I use a thin scraping of peanut butter, no margarine - Nuts are also good in a low cholesterol diet for reducing blood cholesterol! I use very pure peanut butter, as some are filled with sugar and other types of fats which need to be avoided on sample diets for lowering cholesterol.
Coffee, 2/3 water to 1/3 full cream milk - Full cream milk isn't good when one is on a diet for high cholesterol, but I never could take to skim milk in coffee, I use Nutrasweet to sweeten it.
AND OR a glass of pure, pulp free orange juice - orange juice contains antioxidants that may help against cardiovascular disease and are therefore good in a cholesterol reducing diet - I restrict to one glass a day
AND OR a skim milk milkshake - see my low fat low cholesterol diet recipes to learn how you can make them suitable for a low cholesterol diet - No Saturated fat, No cholesterol and Delicious and Froffy and FILLING. By the way, skim is also good at increasing the GOOD cholesterol. Tip - when drinking one of our lower cholesterol / nil cholesterol skim milk milkshakes, don't let it stand.
I use the drinks above, more so the milk shake and occassionally a skim milk thickshake, again using the low cholesterol diet recipes I provide
I tend to fill up on the drinks and avoid eating, but a piece of fruit or vegetable is ok when using a diet for high cholesterol.
About every second day I will have a couple of small squares of dark chocolate. Although chocolate isn't generally good for someone on this sample diet for high cholesterol, there is some research that suggests a small amount of dark chocolate is good for the heart.
I normally eat a sandwhich made with 60% reduced fat margarine, wholemeal bread and a slice of lean meat with all fat trimmed off - just enough to cover the bread, two pieces of meat if it's thin stuff. Sometimes I add lettuce.
Sometimes I will substitue the bread for pita bread or other different types of whole meal breads.
Low calorie salads made with low fat dressing is fine too, but I'm not really into salads with my high cholesterol diet, being more a meat peson.
Yes I have a sweet tooth and in this diet for high cholesterol, desserts are common place.
Normally I will have a piece of cake or a slice that we made ourselves using our low cholesterol diet recipes which you can find here, or low cholesterol diet recipes we make up as we go, which you may be able to also do, as you develop your understanding of your body and cholesterol.
In terms of shop bought desserts, as long as they are low in saturated fat ( like 0 to 2 % ) and not over the top in calories. Observe portion sizes when on a high cholesterol diet.
For lunch, it's got to be coffee for me, made the same way as for breakfast coffee. Normally 2 cups.
You are probably expecting me to say fruit or vegetables, which would be healthy and good for a cholesterol reducing diet, but on this diet for high cholesterol, I eat cake or slice that's been made the low cholesterol way by ourselves.
OR Cake or slice that's shop bought, which is low in saturated fat, low in cholesterol ( assuming we can find cholesterol mentioned ) and NOT high in calories. Observe portion sizes!
For lunch, it's got to be coffee for me, made the same way as for breakfast coffee. Again, normally 2 cups for me.
Variety is the spice of life, so dinner is often very different from one day to the next and that shows in this sample diet for high cholesterol.
When using meat, which for me is every day, make sure you prepare the meat the low cholesterol, low saturated fat way. First choose lean meats, less than 10% fat, remove excess fat. If cooking, use a grill so as to remove even more of the saturated fat and cholesterol.
With a diet for high cholesterol, vegetables also should be prepared by oven frying using a fine spray of cooking oil, or by steaming, or by boiling.
Herbs and spices can be used to flavour - do not add fats.
You think cooking oil is safe because it's vegetable oil, such as canola oil or grapeseed oil or olive oil ... even these good oils are normally between 9 and 22% saturated fat, that's why frying is a very rare treat when on diets for high cholesterol.
If you check out our lower cholesterol naturally page, you will find alot of information on foods, herbs and so on that can lower blood cholesterol. Add these to your high cholesterol diet plan to control your cholesterol even better.
Main reduce cholesterol version meal 1.: I have bacon and eggs about once a week: Eggs on toast, bacon on the side or as 2 bacon and egg jaffles - use the 60% reduced fat margarine enriched with plant sterols on wholemeal bread. The whole meal bread is to lower cholesterol and stabilise blood sugars. Removing excess fat from bacon and using the plant sterol margarine removes most of the saturated fat that one's body would convert to cholesterol. An excellent and lovely very much reduced cholesterol dinner.
Main reduce cholesterol version meal 2.: Meat or fish with vegetables. Carrots are nearly always included as they are known to reduce cholesterol. Onions are good for reducing cholesterol, matter of fact, anything in the onion family appears to be good to reduce cholesterol. So these foods are a definite inclusion in this diet for high cholesterol.
If you have to have chips with your meat or fish sometimes: To maintain the lower cholesterol way, cook only with a thin spray of cooking oil and oven fry. Wedges with the skin on, I now find are much more tasty than plain chips - again oven fried with a thin spray of vegetable oil, then seasoned just about anyway you want. Wont necessarily reduce cholesterol directly, but it shouldn't raise cholesterol either. There is also a possibility that they will indirectly reduce cholesterol by substituting for a higher saturated fat or higher cholesterol food, that may have otherwise been used, such as deep fried chips.
Food substitution is an important point in a diet for high cholesterol - I look for better and nicer reduced cholesterol alternatives, NOT going without. Also, by being a lower calorie version to normal chips, the risk of the body producing vldl cholesterol appears reduced as well - meaning they may lower cholesterol by keeping the big dinner calorie intake down.
Main lower cholesterol version meal 3.: Fruit and nuts. Once a week I have a meal of dried fruits and nuts. Only a few teaspoons of the nuts to keep down the saturated fat and calories coming from them. I've found this to be a lovely alternative meal to include in my diet for high cholesterol.
Provided the dried fruits have been prepared correctly, they shouldn't contain cholesterol nor saturated fat - check the food label to be safer. This reduced cholesterol meal, may also help reduce cholesterol through the nuts and fruit fibre.
Side Dish to accompany reduced cholesterol version meal - if desired: Wholemeal bread - due to it's ability to lower cholesterol. Topped with 60% low fat, plant sterol enriched vegetable margarine spread thinly, to cut down the saturated fat and calories further, which helps lower cholesterol, such as ldl and vldl cholesterol.
Or, to make this side dish nicer, add garlic powder or garlic bits to the topping. You have lovely garlic bread, plus the garlic is a potent means to reduce cholesterol.
Matter of fact, this garlic bread side dish is so designed to reduce cholesterol, that even if the main dish with meat or fish was going to raise your blood cholesterol, this side dish may turn it round to lower cholesterol. This is a very tasty way to reduce cholesterol! An excellent option to include in YOUR diet for high cholesterol.
As can be seen, there is an awful lot to consider in putting a diet for high cholesterol together. No wonder so many people don't get it wrong and end up on medication or just dropping dead. Hopefully this sample diet for high cholesterol will fill that gap.
You can add a low cholesterol, low saturated fat, low calorie dessert if you want, but I'm normally happy with a low cholesterol diet milk shake. Normally I'm feeling fullish.
Low calorie soft drink or
As stated above, a reduced cholesterol diet skim milkshake, as skim milk has been shown to be able to increase good cholesterol, or
A glass of pure orange juice.
Mainly low calorie soft drink
Maybe one hot chocolate or fancy milk coffee once a week as a special treat, generally not good for a diet to reduce cholesterol.
Low fat, low calorie Yoghurt
Fruit - may be one or two apples and or piece of fresh pineapple and or an orange and or some grapes.
Normal ice cream as rare treat, or ice cream on a stick or in a cone, all shop bought prepackaged - but only maybe eaten once a week and one serving size. You may feel this is too much to ask, even on a sample diet for high cholesterol, but they are loaded with saturated fat and calories.
In this sample diet for high cholesterol, this section on vitamins, minerals and oils may seem out of place, but they are what I take as part of my high cholesterol diet routine, so I include them here.
1 x 500mg Vitamin E, 1 or 2 x 500mg vitamin C, 1 x 1000mg Fish oil with dha etc, 1 x 1000mg Primrose oil, 1 x multivitamins.
Apart from the Vitamin C which is daily, the others are taken essentially every second or third day.
The reasons for taking these can be found on our page on Lowering Cholesterol Naturally.
Also, when on any diet for high cholesterol, or any diet for that matter, we are mucking about with our normal food intake, and, until our body adjusts to the new tastes and so on, we may not take in enough of certain vitamins and minerals and so. Fat based vitamins should be supplemented, as we cut out so much fat at the start in any good diet for high cholesterol.
Okay. At this point, I've gone beyond the diet for high cholesterol. I'm giving you more a guide to reducing high cholesterol, rather than a strict sample diet focused purely on food and drink intake.
Exercise is important though in keeping healthy and is normally good for keeping the high cholesterol levels down as well.
You can learn more about the value of exercise and how to exercise through my weight loss pages.
I hope you find this sample diet for high cholesterol helpful. I think the sample diets are a very good place to start when you don't know much better, but if you go through all the life saving information on our pages for lowering and understanding high cholesterol, I would hope that you would be able to modify these sample diets for high cholesterol, if you need to, to suit your own liefstyle and tastes.
I sincerely hope that you will all gain the victory over high cholesterol that I now enjoy, along with all it's health and vitality benefits.
Your weight may go down drastically too, especially if you follow our rapid weight loss tips, which will also normally help to lower high cholesterol in those who are overweight.