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CHOLESTEROL: DIETS
High Fiber Diet
Despite their number and variety, all high fiber products have one thing in common: they are plant cell remnants that cannot be digested, the U.S. Pharmacist (12#7:42) reports. Without providing calories, they take up space in the stomach and intestines and thereby help to satisfy hunger.
Some, like wheat bran, increase the bulk of the stools but are sometimes constipating. Others, like oat bran, also tend to make the stools softer and more easily passed. Oat bran has a very useful cholesterol-lowering effect as well. For many, a mixture of these brans may be ideal. Salad, vegetables, and fruit (especially if unpeeled) also provide some dietary fiber.
Dietary fiber tends to bind onto other substances in the intestine and thereby prevents them (at least, in part) from being absorbed. This is one of the ways in which they help us to lose weight. However, fiber can also interfere with the absorption of some medications and essential nutrients (i.e., calcium). Accordingly, people who depend upon medicines for blood pressure, heart failure, or epilepsy, etc., or who are taking calcium for their bones should consult their doctors before starting a high fiber diet.
Pritikin Diet
Dr. Nathan Pritikin founded an institution named after him that champions both a diet that is high in fiber and low in fat and cholesterol, and a lifestyle that includes a lot of exercise. He died in 1985 from cancer. At autopsy, his heart and coronary arteries showed no trace of atherosclerosis (“hardening” from fat and cholesterol deposits), the New England Journal of Medicine (313:52) reports. This is remarkable because, 30 years earlier, before he started dieting and exercising, he had severe coronary disease, with dangerously high blood levels of cholesterol. By practicing what he preached, Dr. Pritikin rid himself completely of arterial disease and set a good example for us all.
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