Low Cholesterol vs. Low Fat

If your cholesterol level concerns your doctor, you may have been advised to work on changing your diet. Attempting to improve your cholesterol level through diet and exercise is usually the first step before a doctor decides to prescribe a cholesterol-lowering medication. Knowing what changes to make to your diet can be a whole other [...]

Butter’s Cholesterol versus Margarine’s Chemicals

It often seems that making healthy choices is a no win situation. Sugar or sweetener? Low-fat or full fat? The butter vs. margarine debate also falls into this category. Which is worse? The cholesterol in butter or the trans fats and other chemicals in margarine? Each side has proponents, each side has detractors and people [...]

Eating Extra Chocolate Can Offer Extra Health Benefits

There is great news on the horizon for people who love chocolate who gave it up because of its “unhealthy” consequences. A new study has concluded that chocolate can improve cardiovascular health because of its high levels of flavonoids. Previous Studies Because chocolate has anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties due to the significant number of flavonols, [...]

Choosing the Right Carbohydrates

Carbohydrates are molecules made up of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. The simplest carbohydrates are sugars like fructose, glucose and sucrose. Carbohydrates then grow more complex as the sugars form chains to make them. Starches and Fibers Starch is a long, complex carbohydrate molecule and is abundant in foods like root vegetables, rice and wheat. It’s [...]

Five Surprisingly Healthy Kinds of Food

Today we are bombarded by the beneficial claims made by the food industry. Sorting out the good from the bad can be a daunting task, especially when conflicting reports come out every week. Healthful food, high in vitamins, nutrients and beneficial bacteria keep our bodies in peak condition and promote healing when we are sick.  [...]

“Heart-Healthy” Foods May be Killing You: Butter versus Margarine

Confusion over the longstanding controversy between butter and margarine continues. Many health agencies continue to cling to outdated theories that have been repeatedly proven untrue. The truth is that butter isn’t nearly as bad for you as once thought and margarine may be worse than the industry leads you to believe. Butter is Just Better [...]

Rapid Weight Loss Diets Might Not Be For You

Rapid Weight Loss Diets Might Not Be For You Diets and weight loss are big business these days.  We all want to look and feel good.  To accommodate the demand for rapid weight loss diet tips, the marketplace is filled with diet plans and information.  In this day and age, we have become accustomed to [...]

Risk Factors & Cholesterol

Risk Factors and Cholesterol: High cholesterol is a chronic problem for millions of individuals around the globe. It is a health hazard because it causes major health problems in the body as well as clogs the arteries. While people associate experiencing high cholesterol with an increased risk of heart attack, high cholesterol  may also contribute [...]

Low Cholesterol Diet

Low Cholesterol Diet: There are many ways to get started with a low cholesterol diet. An easy start would be to change your grocery store habits. When shopping, start paying attention to labels and focus on low-fat foods like lean meats. A terrific next step would be to focus on how to prepare the foods after you [...]

Expose Of The Cholesterol Controversy

An article that appeared in the May Medical Counterpoint by a well-known physician and former associate editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Edward, brought out another aspect of the heart disease problem that I hadn’t considered. The article, “Is Commercialism Controlling the Controversy Over Cho­lesterol?”, examined the motives and interrelationships of [...]

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