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WHAT IS CHOLESTEROL?

Cholesterol is a fat-like, waxy compound found in the blood and body tissue. The body normally produces enough for its needs. When there is too much cholesterol in the blood, it can build up in the walls of the arteries and eventually cause the arteries to harden. If the circulation of blood through the coronary artery becomes completely blocked, a heart attack will be the result.

There’s good cholesterol and bad — but do you know the difference? Here are some helpful hints and facts to help you distinguish the two.

Dr. Oz’s Cholesterol Facts:

– Ideally, your low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels should be under 100 mg/DL.
– The liver produces cholesterol, therefore you want to eat foods that keep it healthy and avoid foods like white bread that contain bleached flour.
– Foods that help cholesterol: monosaturated fats & soluble fiber.
– Foods that hurt cholesterol: Whole milk, peanut butter, liver, dark chicken meat.

WHY IS CHOLESTEROL IMPORTANT?

Your blood cholesterol level has a lot to do with your chances of getting heart disease. High blood cholesterol is one of the major risk factors for heart disease. A risk factor is a condition that increases your chance of getting a disease. In fact, the higher your blood cholesterol level, the greater your risk for developing heart disease or having a heart attack.

HOW CAN I LOWER CHOLESTEROL?

Here are few tips for lowering cholesterol:

– Eat fewer fats and fried foods. Choose non-fat and low-fat versions of foods, if available.
– When eating fats, select unsaturated fats. (Unsaturated fats are liquid at room temperature — vegetable oils, for example. Avoid tropical oils, such as palm and coconut oil.)
– Choose fish and poultry more often than red meat.
– Limit total amount of meat, fish, poultry, and low-fat cheeses to 7 ounces or less each day.
– Exercise
– If you smoke, quit.
– Lose extra weight.
– Eat more soluble fiber. Good sources are fruits, beans, peas, and oats.
– Limit egg yolks to no more than three per week. (Egg whites are fat-free.)

ARE THERE GOOD AND BAD CHOLESTEROL TYPES?

We’ve realized in the past several years that the overall cholesterol number isn’t nearly as important as breaking it down into LDL and HDL because the two have such different actions.

We remember it by first initials-L for lousy, H for healthy.

LDL cholesterol is short for low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. Exercising, losing even 10 pounds of weight, avoiding simple carbohydrates (avoid all white foods), and restricting saturated and trans fats to less than 20 grams a day will lower your LDL. You can lower the level of LDL cholesterol in several other ways, as well.

As you might guess, HDL cholesterol is short for high-density lipoprotein cholesterol. You want as high an HDL level possible-at least greater than 40. You can increase your HDL by consuming healthy fats-found in olive oil, fish, and walnuts-walking (or any physical activity) for 30 minutes a day, taking a newer natural products like Cholesterol Reduction Conplex from Shaklee, and having a drink of Red Wine on occasion. You can boost your level of HDL cholesterol in other ways, as well.

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† Products providing 800 mg of plant sterols and stanols daily, consumed with two different meals as part of a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol, may reduce the risk of heart disease. Cholesterol Reduction Complex provides 1,000 mg of plant sterols and stanols per serving, and 2,000 mg daily when used as directed.

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Health benefits of chokeberry (Aronia)

Chokeberries are low in calories and fats. 100 g of fresh berries carry 47 calories. Nonetheless, they are one of the nature’s richest sources of flavonoid anthocyanin antioxidants. In addition, the berries contain handsome levels of minerals, vitamins, as well as dietary fiber through their peel.

The oxygen radical absorbency capacity or ORAC (measurement of antioxidant strength of food items) demonstrates chokeberry with one of the highest values yet recorded among berries-16,062 micro-moles of Trolox Equivalents (TE) per 100 g.

Black chokeberries consist of significantly high amounts of phenolic flavonoid phyto-chemicals called anthocyanins. Total anthocyanin content is 1480 mg per 100 g of fresh berries, and proanthocyanidin concentration is 664 mg per 100 g (Wu et al. 2004, 2006). Scientific studies have shown that consumption of berries on regular basis offers potential health benefits against cancer, aging and neurological diseases, inflammation, diabetes, and bacterial infections. (- By Dr. Paul Gross, 2007-07-09).

Laboratory analyses of anthocyanins in chokeberries have identified the following individual chemicals: cyanidin-3-galactoside, quercetin, peonidin, delphinidin, petunidin, epicatechin, caffeic acid, pelargonidin and malvidin. These flavonoid poly-phenolic antioxidants have proven health benefits through scavenging dangerous oxygen-free radicals from the body.

Cancer research on anthocyanins in black chokeberry preparations was first used to inhibit chemically induced cancer in the rat esophagus, and was found to reduce the disease severity by 30-60% and that of the colon cancer by up to 80%. Effective at initiation and promotion/progression stages of tumor development, these berries can be a practical research tool and hold a promising therapeutic resource since they contain the highest amount of anthocyanins among native North American berries [J. Agric. Food Chem. 50 (12): 3495–500].

They are also rich in flavonoid anti-oxidants such as carotenes, luteins and zeaxanthins. Zea-xanthin has photo-filtering effects on UV rays and thus protects eyes from age-related macular disease in the elderly (ARMD).

Further, they are also good sources of many antioxidant vitamins like vitamin-C, vitamin A, vitamin E, beta-carotene and folate and minerals like potassium, iron and manganese. 100 g of fresh berries provide about 35% of daily-recommended levels of vitamin C.