- Foods like oatmeal, whole-grain breads and most fruits and vegetables have high amounts of fiber. Fiber has the ability to catch any cholesterol before it enters the bloodstream and cleanses the bad cholesterol out of the body.
- Dr. Raymond Lombardi performed a study showing that folic acid, B6 and B12 vitamins all help in lowering cholesterol. Foods rich in these B vitamins include spinach, beans, peas, sunflower seeds and many fortified breakfast cereals.
- Foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids have powerful cholesterol-lowering properties. All fish contains some of these omega-3s; however, herring, salmon, trout, tuna and sardines boast the highest supplies.
- Many fortified foods like margarine and juice are now boasting plant sterols and stanols. These cholesterol-lowering foods act in much the same way as fiber. The sterols and stanols prevent cholesterol from entering the bloodstream by flushing the cholesterol out of the body.
- These fatty acids are found in cholesterol-lowering nuts and legumes such as walnuts, almonds and soy beans. Polyunsaturated fatty acids help healthy blood vessels flourish and have been shown to reduce the bad cholesterol known as low-density lipoprotein, or LDL, by 12 percent.
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