A Paradigm Shift For Low Cholesterol Diet Menus

The Right Types of Protein for Low Cholesterol Diet Menus

Thus, pasture-fed, grain-free beef (preferably with no antibiotics and hormones) is a healthy food for your diet menus. How will you cook them? Follow good cooking principles such as the ones below:

1. Don’t fry them. The oils used in frying are unsaturated! Frying increases oxidation and thus contributes to the raising of cholesterol.

2. Bake them or braise them in water.

3. Use a crockpot to cook them.

4. Occasionally broil them or grill them – and use herbs such as rosemary, oregano, and basil to neutralize any advanced glycation endproducts that are formed during the high heat.

Buffalo is an excellent meat because they are not commercially raised like cattle. Lamb is also good. These are the natural meats I have recommended to my patients who desire a lower cholesterol level.

Eat Enough Vegetables

Certain vegetables are more prone to help bring down a high cholesterol level. Okra is my favorite recommendation. The mucilaginous substances in okra combine easily with oxidized fat in the bloodstream. Everyone’s low cholesterol diet menus should have okra on them. One easy way to fix them is to add them to the crockpot or pan when you are braising the meat. Sprinkle a little savory and a bit of lemon juice on what’s cooking, and the flavor will immediately be enhanced.

Artichoke is another excellent vegetable for those who want to lower cholesterol. However, be wary of the artichoke dips that are full of unsaturated fats that oxidize and will raise cholesterol. The only good way to eat artichokes is by boiling them and dipping them in a sauce without unsaturated fats.

Lots of leafy green vegetables are also required on low cholesterol diet menus. These may be eaten in salads and slightly steamed, or cooked. But again, don’t add unsaturated fats when you cook them. Go for butter! It’s a stable, safe fat.

The Correct Type of Fat

Throw away your vegetable oils. They will harm your arteries. Instead, use only coconut oil, butter, and some olive oil. These may be used when you cook, bake, and make desserts.

The new paradigm shift for low cholesterol diet menus is a shock to some people. However, you can learn more about it by studying primitive diets. Heart disease was very rare when people ate meat, dairy products and butter. These natural foods were protective against heart disease and other degenerative diseases. It’s only when man added processed foods, sugars, changed the beef, genetically-engineered the wheat, and added vegetable oils to the diet that heart disease became a problem.

Author

This article was written for Insights-on-Health.com in Oct 2013 by Dr Donna Schwontkowski. Reversing health disorders is easier when principles of natural healing are used. Dr Donna is a retired chiropractor with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in nutrition and a master’s in herbology. She has over 25 years experience working with thousands of patients to reverse their health conditions. Read more about her here.

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