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What are the cholesterol lowering foods and how to reduce the cholesterol in the body

Sihaiwang: cholesterol has a wide range of physiological effects in the body, but when it is excessive, it will lead to hypercholesterolemia, which has a negative impact on the body. Hypercholesterolemia is also an important cause of atherosclerosis. You may not know that it's only one step from hypercholesterolemia to coronary heart disease. So how to reduce cholesterol in life? Let's take a look at it with Xiaobian~

The following five foods are considered by the nutrition community to be good at lowering cholesterol:

1. Lentinus edodes

It can obviously reduce the level of serum cholesterol, triglyceride and low-density lipoprotein. Regular consumption can make the high-density lipoprotein in the body have a relatively increasing trend.

2. Soybean

Beans are the cheapest, most common and most effective anti cholesterol food in nature. Eating 28 grams of beans every day can reduce 10% of total cholesterol, LDL (bad cholesterol) and triglyceride. To reduce cholesterol, you can include soy products such as tofu, soy milk and miso in your daily diet.

People with family cardiovascular disease should not forget to put a large piece of marinated tofu into the plate when they eat buffet at noon every day.

3. Garlic

Researchers in New York have found that garlic can lower both total cholesterol and bad cholesterol. Experiments in Seattle also found that taking one garlic oil pill, equivalent to three cloves of garlic a day, also increased good cholesterol by 23%.

4. Wax gourd

Wax gourd has a very good effect on weight loss. If you eat it often, you can get rid of the excess fat in your body and achieve the effect of weight loss, so as to reduce your cholesterol on the other hand.

5. Grapefruit

There is a soluble fiber in grapefruit that can reduce LDL. Eating two and a half cups of grapefruit pulp every day can reduce LDL by 10%. The food containing soluble fiber can increase the excretion of cholesterol, such as agaric, mushroom, kelp, seaweed, etc.

Although the above food can help reduce cholesterol, but in the daily diet, we must pay attention to not overeating, eating regularly, healthy diet, so as to fundamentally reduce cholesterol.