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Eating To Live - The Low Cholesterol Foods .
It is not expected that you should totally change or alter ingrained habits of a lifetime of eating patterns, but being able to accept a few adjustments with regard to your eating patterns, puts you well on your way to a wealth of delicious, natural flavors of a wide variety of foods, that are low cholesterol foods, as nature intended, to your good health.
For instance, you can easily make these adjustments.
Substitute: Honey, date sugar for processed white or brown sugar.
Carob powder for chocolate
Skimmed milk for heavy cream
Wine vinegars for other vinegars
Unsalted butter for salted butter
Non-gluten flours for all other flours
Immediately switch to naturally GRASS-FED beef
Raw milk from grass-fed cows is far superior
Immediately switch to ORGANICALLY raised chickens and products.
Dulse for processed salt
Canned juice, dried fruit, unsalted popcorn for theater snacks.
Dried and fresh fruit for a craving for sweets.
Life was never meant to be a struggle. It is because we ignore nature's simple and definite laws, that sooner than later man or woman crushes and burns, and such is the story of high bad cholesterol and your determined search for cholesterol lowering foods. 
It is important to know why you eat and what variety of foods are necessary, both for the nutrition of your body and the reduction of fat and bad cholesterol.
Basically, you need a variety of nutritious foods to provide for the building, maintainance and repair of your body cells and tissues, in addition to providing you with energy.
Let us take a brief and informative look at the food sources for the major nutrients, vitamins and minerals, the role and use of these elements in your body, and the effects of their deficiency.
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Vitamin |
Food Source |
Use in Body |
Effects Of Deficiency |
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A |
Apricot
Parsley
Spinach
Red Hot peppers |
Promotes growth and reproduction.
Stored in liver, eyes,
Skin, lungs, kidney, gall-bladder |
Night blindness.
Reduced ability to resist
infections |
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B-1 |
Yeast, Wheat germ
Sunflower seeds
Peanuts |
Builds energy and appetite.
Aids digestion
Heart
Liver |
Nervous instability
Depression
Fatigue |
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B-2 |
Almonds
Wheat germ
Mushrooms |
Resistance to disease
Improve skin
Improve eye conditions
Liver, Kidney, Heart |
Cracks at lip corners.
Swollen lips and tongue.
Burning, itching eyes.
Blurred vision. |
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B-3 |
Rice bran
Wheat germ
Peanuts |
Mental health
Aids nervous system
Adrenal glands |
Intestinal, skin and
Neurological change. |
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B-5 |
Wheat germ
Legumes |
Healthy skin and hair
Adrenal hormones
Production of anti-
biotics
Liver |
Nausea
Sullenness, Depression
Pain in arms, legs.
Repeated infections
Rapid pulse |
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B-6 |
Wheat germ
Cabbage(red)
Oranges |
Nervous system
Blood cells
Liver. |
Seborrhea
Same as B-5 |
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B-12 |
B-complex foods |
Blocks nerve cell
Degeneration. |
Pernicious anemia
Skin and nerve inflammation |
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Folic Acid |
Mushrooms
Green leaf veggies
Wheat germ |
Healthy blood |
Anemia |
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PABA |
Wheat germ
B-complex foods |
Maintain natural
Color of hair |
Loss of hair
Reproduction failure |
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Biotin |
Most B-complex foods |
Mental health
Liver, kidney
pancreas |
Dermatitis of arms, legs
Nervousness
Anemia |
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Choline |
Spinach
Wheat germ
Nuts
Fruits |
HEALTHY ARTERIES |
Degeneration of kidney, adrenals, lungs,
eyes, heart
Cirrhosis
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Inositol |
Grapefruit
Wheat germ
Cantaloupe
Nuts |
Healthy hair
Delays HARDENING of
ARTERIES |
Loss of hair
Reproduction failure |
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Lecithin |
Soybean
Most food plants |
Liver
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ARTERY DEGENERATION
Fatigue
Skin disorders |
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Do stay tuned here for the next post, to continue to take a look at the various nutrients, and the cholesterol lowering foods.
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