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Diet Bites, the Voice of Weight Loss Experience Fire Ant Chili - Keeping the lid on fat and calorie content, this hearty chili is certain to bring a smile to the most picky of Dieters. continue Chicken Pot Pie - Learn our trick to trimming down the calories in homemade chicken pot pie without trimming down the taste. continue Skinny Model Era May be Vanishing - Rail-thin models sent off the catwalk in France. continue The Transfer of Trans Fats - A study resulted in weight gain with trans fat consumption, even when calorie levels were maintained. But even more disturbing was the distribution of fat. continue | Foods Highest in Trans-Fats The Fast Food Diet - Fast food can be an option for dieters. Diet Bites provides Calorie-Wise selections for dieters. continue Tell Your Diet to Take a Hike! - Have you ever climbed a tall tree or mountain and when you reached the top, you felt like a scaredy cat - too frightened to climb down? This situation is a lot like weight loss. continue Daily Diet Makeover - How to cut calories and fat without giving up favorite foods. click to continue Oh, Those Confusing Labels - How to make mincemeat out of dough wads. click to continue I'll Go On a Diet Tomorrow - Most of us are far too friendly with cupid's chocolates, we give way too much thanks to Grandma's turkey dinner on Thanksgiving Day and we even go hog wild on Groundhog's Day. Please pass the biscuits and red eye gravy.... click to continue Weight Loss Work Out - Weight Loss Tips for the Workplace - How calories can turn into pounds at work, and some savvy tips so they won't! click to continue Korean Pine Nut Extract Challenges Obesity - A promising component for weight loss may be found in the Korean Pine Nut. continue Weight Loss Ain't Easy - Weight loss should be simple. Basically, we eat less and lose weight, right? Well, not quite. There are a few mountains that often block the road leading to weight loss success, and one of the biggest mountains of all may not be a mountain at all - rather the official Food Pyramid. continue Food Association - Just the smell of fresh popcorn can trigger our food desires. But something deeper and dearer to the heart may be our strongest trigger for eating. continue |
Low Cholesterol DietIncluding an Example of a Low Cholesterol Diet Menu Jack has just exited his doctor's office who recommended a diet low in cholesterol in an effort to cut health risks. Although Jack is thin, he has some cholesterol issues. His bad cholesterol levels are up and his good cholesterol levels are down. If he can't get his cholesterol levels in tune, his doctor plans to prescribe medication - something that Jack wishes to avoid. Because he is regularly active, Jack plans to follow his doctor's recommendations by working on shaping up his daily diet. He has always been naturally thin and able to eat most anything that he liked without experiencing weight gain, just like his parents before him - both of which passed on due to heart-related diseases. The Low Cholesterol Diet Challenge Once Jack reaches home, he grabs a bag of potato chips to munch on as he looks through his pantry to decide what he should eat for dinner. Before diving into the bag of chips, he checked the label to ensure that they didn't contain cholesterol. Lucky for Jack, the potato chips appear to be cholesterol free. For dinner, he decides upon the following: Jack's 'Low Cholesterol' Diet Menu
Jack carefully inspected all the labels, finding only the baked beans being loaded with cholesterol - about 9 mg. However, calorie-content aside, Jack's perceivably low-cholesterol menu is actually extremely high in cholesterol. The secret weapon? Fat content. Therefore, if you are in a situation as Jack, examining the fat content on the label - particularly saturated fats and trans-fats, is a must when seeking attractive cholesterol numbers. A low cholesterol diet menu looks like this: Low Cholesterol Diet Menu
The Three Levels of Cholesterol Cholesterol is essential to proper cell function within the body as well as in the formation of hormones, bile salts and in transporting fats in the bloodstream to body tissues. LDLs (Low Density Lipoproteins) consist of a high percentage of cholesterol which is utilized by cells for essential functions within the body. When a high level of LDL cholesterol is present in the bloodstream, an increased risk occurs for heart-related diseases. HDLs (High Density Lipoproteins) are similar to LDLs in that they also consist of a high percentage of cholesterol. However, HDL cholesterol acts much differently within the body, removing cholesterol from body tissues, then transporting to the liver for excretion. A high ratio of HDLs to LDLs may protect an individual against heart-related diseases. VLDLs (Very Low Density Lipoproteins) convert into low density lipoproteins in the body which are comprised of a high percentage of triglycerides. In turn, triglycerides are utilized by the body for energy purposes, or may be stored as fat for future energy needs. In Summary It appears that Jack's cholesterol issues are associated with genetics. Although an individual is thin and active, they may not be immune from high levels of bad cholesterol. In order for Jack to succeed in bringing down the bad cholesterol and increasing the good, he should consider fat intake into the Cholesterol Equation, particularly when reading labels. And of course, just because a label indicates ' 0 cholesterol ' it doesn't mean that the food is desirable for those pursuing a low cholesterol diet.
Click below for information on popular cholesterol-lowering prescription medications. Return to Article Index Within This Section The Pantry Diet - Grab 'n go at the market with our nifty Pantry Diet. continue Diet Menus on a Budget - Fourteen thrifty diet-wise menus with shopping list included. click to continue Diet Menu 1 | Diet Menu 2 | Diet Menu 3 | Diet Menu 4 Diet Menu 5 | Diet Menu 6 | Diet Menu 7 | Diet Menu 8 Diet Menu 9 | Diet Menu 10 Diet Bites - The Flaming Phoenix of Diet. Diet Hot with free diet plans, diet motivation & diet menus. Over 1,000 smart weight loss & dieting articles, including latest dieting news. We're Diet Fresh! Click Here For More Diet Bites Comfort Food Makeovers - Comfort foods that soothe the Diet Soul without adding pounds to the weight scales. click to continue
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