Foods That Help With Cholesterol

In what foods can cholesterol be found?

• Egg yolks
• Meat
• Cheese

What happens if you have too much cholesterol?

• Poor diet
  • Eating saturated fat found in animal products, and trans fats, found in processed foods, can raise your cholesterol level.
  • Foods that are high in cholesterol (red meat and full-fat dairy products) will also increase your total cholesterol.
• Obesity
• Large waist circumference
• Lack of exercise
• Smoking
  • Smoking damages the walls of your blood vessels and may also lower your level of HDL, or “good,” cholesterol.
• Diabetes
  • High blood sugar contributes to higher LDL cholesterol and lower HDL cholesterol, which damages the lining of your arteries.
• Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH)
  • Genetic predisposition can lead to high cholesterol.

Negative side effects of high cholesterol

• Chest pain
• If the arteries that supply your heart with blood are affected, you will experience chest pain.
• Heart attack
• If plaque tears or ruptures, a blood clot may form blocking the flow of blood. With no blood flow to your heart, a heart attack is imminent.
• Stroke
• When blood flow to part of your brain is blocked by a blood clot, a stroke can occur.

Foods that can help combat inflammation and cholesterol

• Tomatoes
• Olive oil
• Green leafy vegetables, such as spinach, kale, and collards
• Nuts like almonds and walnuts
• Fatty fish like salmon, mackerel, tuna, and sardines
• Oats
• Barley and other whole grains
• Beans
• Eggplant and okra
• Soy
• Fruits such as strawberries, blueberries, cherries, and oranges

Try to avoid or limit these foods as much as possible:

• Refined carbohydrates, such as white bread and pastries
• French fries and other fried foods
• Soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages
• Red meat (burgers, steaks) and processed meat (hot dogs, sausage)
• Margarine, shortening, and lard

How can I lower my cholesterol?

• FIT In Your GENES™ Weight Loss Program
  • This program is structured by our team who will coordinate holistic nutritional visits and help you create daily personalized meals as well as supplement plan. With an 80% effective rate among those who have participated, the goal of the program is to help restore metabolism and wellness.

• FIT In Your GENES™ Holistic Heart Health
  • To keep your heart healthy and decrease the amount of build up on plaque, this program also aims to achieve stabilization of heart disease, reducing the risk of a cardiac event, normalize blood pressure, hormone levels, glucose and cholesterol, all while driving to decrease inflammation.