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Diet
There are two important steps you should take to lower your cholesterol:
If you are overweight, Lose weight Follow a low-fat, low- cholesterol diet
The first step in a cholesterol-lowering is to make a dietary plan. This
is because diet alone may not lower the cholesterol, it will be better if
you adopt dietary changes. For this you have to make a proper healthy diet
plan.
Creating a diet plan
1. Better to avoid high-fat foods
Tropical oils (coconut, palm, palm kernel) Bacon Butter Whole milk and whole
milk dairy products (cheese, yogurt, sour cream, ice cream) Fatty red meats
Lard
2 . Eat low-fat foods Fat-free or 1% milk Fat-free or
low-fat yogurt Vegetables Fruits Whole-grain cereals, pastas, and rice Fish,
chicken (skinless), and lean meats
3 . Eat low-fat foods Vegetable oil or olive oil instead of butter
or lard
The Therapeutic Lifestyle Change (TLC) diet
Your doctor will recommend you Therapeutic Lifestyle Change (TLC) diet developed
by the National Institutes of Health if your cholesterol level is too high.
The TLC diet is a low-saturated-fat, low-cholesterol eating plan that recommends
that: Dietary cholesterol be limited to less than 200 mg per day Less than
7% of calories come from saturated fat You consume only enough calories
to maintain a desirable weight and to avoid weight gain You can try increasing
the amount of soluble fiber in your diet, if you follow the above guidelines
and still LDL (bad) cholesterol is not lowered. You can add some other food
products to TLC diet such as salad dressings to improve cholesterol lowering
power.
Crestor (rosuvastatin
calcium) is a prescription medicine used to treat high cholesterol. It belongs
to a group of medicines — called statins — that lower cholesterol.
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