Cholesterol is a lipoid which is vital for humans. It is contained in all membranes of body cells, lots of hormones can be found in neural tissue, and finally, cholesterol plays an important role in hormone synthesis. The body creates more than sufficient of cholesterol for these needs.
Cholesterol also comes to our bodies with food and very often in unreasonable quantities. General source of this substance is fatty animal products. Excess quantity of these products in human diet leads to the increase of cholesterol in the blood and at this point cholesterol becomes your mortal foe rather than your friend.
First sign of high level of cholesterol is a rise of blood pressure, heart pains when you are anxious and you may start experiencing certain problems while walking. Intermittent lameness may be evoked by atherosclerosis plaques in legs’ arteries.
Anyone should limit consumption of fatty food irrespectively of the results of analysis. This should be done at least as prevention, because the balance can be broken any moment, particularly if it is an aged man with overweight problems, pernicious habits and sedentary stressful life.
The less animal fats like milk fat will be included in your menu, the more chances you have to preserve your health. It’s not necessary to refuse totally from meat and dairy products. In such a case, you’ll deprive yourself of healthy cholesterol too. As a fact, strict adepts of vegetarianism who have never eaten fatty or even leanest meat do have heart attacks and apoplexies.
Actually, cholesterol is a strongly required substance for the organism. It is contained in membranes of cells, employed in hormone synthesis and is necessary for our brain. You should follow the mixed diet which combines animal and vegetable fats. Ideally, you should avoid consuming high cholesterol nutrition like sturgeon caviar, beef brains, hard cheese and egg yolk.
At last there’re new supplements which help to lower cholesterol levels: Lopid, Zetia and other.
Here is the list of high cholesterol foods:
- Dairy butter, meat fat, lard, suet, palm and coconut oil, artificially saturated hard fat including culinary and vegetable oil, margarine.
- Visible meat fat, mutton brisket, fat pork from the belly, salami, spread, duck meat, goose meat.
- Eggs.
- Unskimmed milk, condensed milk, sour cream, fat cheese, fat curdled milk, kefir.
- Caviar.
- Potatoes fried with animal fat.
- Pastry, ice-cream.
- Soups based on fatty broth.
- Sour cream sauces, mayonnaise or other fatty dressing.