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Eat Oatmeal to Lower 'Bad' Cholesterol
By Diane Hanson
If you have high cholesterol levels, it is extremely important that you adopt healthy
eating and lifestyle habits. There are many different types of food that are known
to lower cholesterol and studies have found that oatmeal has cholesterol-
This gelatinous quality of the ingested fiber is associated with trapping LDL (bad) cholesterol. Bad cholesterol thickens the walls of the arteries, which leads to heart problems, heart attacks and strokes.
The soluble and insoluble fibers in oatmeal mix with cholesterol in the small intestine, then bind to the cholesterol molecules and prevents the bad cholesterol from being absorbed into the blood and goes out with waste.
Studies have shown that 5 to 10 grams of soluble fiber a day lowers LDL cholesterol by about 5 percent. One bowl of oatmeal contains about 3 grams of soluble fiber. Needless to say, the more oatmeal you eat, the lower your cholesterol will go.
That being said, to get the maximum benefits of oatmeal, it is better to eat old
fashioned or steel cut oats. If you opt for instant oatmeal, be sure to read the
ingredient label since instant products may contain ingredients that may be counter-
Also, do not assume that every product that has the word 'oat' on its ingredient label actually contain oatmeal and is therefore good for you. For instance, sugared oatmeal bars and oatmeal cookies. They contain very little oatmeal and have a lot of sugar and fat.
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