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10 Foods That Help Lower Cholesterol

In drugged America (or is it drunk America? Hmm, that’s a toss up),

Americans are blindly medicating when really the answer is a simplechange of diet and exercise. With 1 in 5 Americans testing high for

cholesterol it’s no wonder cholesterol-fighting drugs are the most

popular ones on the market. Lipitor is the most prescribed cholesterol

lowering medicine world-wide; and though it is handed out like

candy, there can be some nasty side effects when taking these kind of

drugs including, aggression , hostility, headaches, muscle pain, and

diarrhea.

On the other hand, eliminating high fat processed foods and

eating whole grains and vegetables instead can easily lower high

cholesterol. To help control high cholesterol  levels due to genetic

factors recent studies suggest that a more natural approach would be

to take a red rice yeast extract along with eating a whole foods diet and

adding exercise. However, when transitioning on to a higher quality

diet make sure to have your medical practitioner monitor your statin

levels, as you will need less and less until they become a distant

memory.

The following list are specific foods known to help cleanse

cholesterol build-up in the arteries and heart. This is due to their high

levels of fiber, Omega-3 Fatty Acids, Lecithin, Vitamin E, C, Niacin and

Rutin.

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1. Legumes: beans, lentils, tofu, tempeh, mung and soybeans and

their sprouts. (Non-GMO)

2. Whole Grains: buckwheat, rye, amaranth, quinoa rice, and

sprouted hard winter wheat.

3. Vegetables: radish, horseradish, hot peppers, onions, garlic,

leek, scallion, shallot, chive, leafy greens, cabbage, spinach, carrot

greens, kale, broccoli, parsley, asparagus, bell pepper, celery, sea

vegetables, cucumber, chlorella, mushrooms.

4. Fruits: citrus, tomato, rose hip, banana, and persimmon.

5. Nuts and Seeds: Almonds, hazelnut, flax seed, chia seed,

pumpkin seed, poppy seed, walnut, sunflower sprouts.6. Fish: sardine, salmon, mackerel, and deep/cold-water fish.

7. Raw honey and Bee Pollen

8. Herbs: Hawthorne berry, dandelion root, burdock root, chaparral,

peppermint (for heart palpitations and strengthening heart muscle),

cayenne pepper, ginger, rhubarb root, yarrow, chamomile,

motherwort, valerian.

9. Oils: Naturally you will want to avoid the so-called “bad saturated 

fats” and focus on getting a balance of the “good fats”, such as the

Omega-9, Olive, Hazelnut, Almond and Sesame oils; and the Omega-3

and 6, Walnut and Grapeseed oils. It has been proven that a balanced

intake of Omega-3 and 6 oils along with high levels of Omega-9

significantly reduce the risk of dying from a cardiovascular related

disease.

10. Most importantly eat a wide variety of wholefoods to insure you receive all the essential nutrients

you need to keep your body strong, healthy and drug

free.

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7 Foods So Unsafe Even

Farmers Won't Eat Them

Grocery stores may sell them, but experts won't touch them;what you should know about your food.

Smoking was proven to be cancer-causing, tanning beds were shown

to be on par with arsenic, but what about canned tomatoes, corn-fed

 beef, conventionally grown potatoes? What would it take to convince

you to clean out your pantry and change your eating habits? Scientists,

doctors, even simple farmers were asked what foods they refuse to eat.The responses had nothing to do with things like donuts due to fat

content, or white bread because of the concentration of empty carbs.

We're talking seemingly healthy things like tomatoes, beef, popcorn,

potatoes, salmon, milk, and apples. For them, it's all about how they

are produced and packaged.

7 experts in fields pertaining to both food and the environment

answered one simple question: "What foods do you avoid?." Their

answers, published in an article entitled "7 Foods the Experts Won't

Eat" on Yahoo! Shine, will make you re-think food. When it comes to

food and its affect on your health and the health of this planet, this is

what they answered:

1. Canned Tomatoes

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The Expert: Fredrick vom Saal, PhD, an endocrinologist at the

University of Missouri who studies bisphenol-A.

The Reason: Tin cans are lined with a resin that contains the synthetic

estrogen bisphenol-A , which has been linked to a slew of health

problems including heart disease, diabetes, reproductive problems,and obesity. But that's not the biggest problem. The acid in tomatoes

 breaks down that bisphenol-A, leaching it into the food, and not just in

insignificant amounts. According to the article, Saal comments that

"you can get 50 mcg of BCA per liter out of a tomato can, and that's a

level that is going to impact people, particularly the young." That's

why he's not touching the stuff.

The Solution: If you lo0ve the taste of "canned" tomatoes but prefer to

skip the bisphenol-A, select glass bottles instead.

2. Corn-Fed Beef

The Expert: Joel Salatin, co-owner of Polyface Farms and author of half

a dozen books on sustainable farming.

The Reason: Cattle are naturally grass eaters... not grain eaters. In

order to fatten the animals (and profit margins), farmers feed them

corn and soybeans. And while the farmers are beefing up theirearnings, they are minimizing the nutritional benefits. The article

mentions the findings from a recent USDA-conducted study

comparing corn-fed beef  and grass-fed beef showing that grass-fed

 beef is "higher in beta-carotene, vitamin E, omega-3s, conjugated

linoleic acid (CLA), calcium, magnesium, and potassium; lower in

inflammatory omega-6s; and lower in saturated fats that have been

linked to heart disease."

The Solution: Pretty straight forward: Opt for grass-fed beef instead.

WATCH VIDEO: Why Grass-Fed Beef? Emeril Answers 

3.Microwave Popcorn

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The Expert: Olga Naidenko, PhD, a senior scientist for the

Environmental Working Group.

The Reason: It's not the popcorn itself, but the chemically-saturated

lining of the bag including a compound called perfluorooctanoic acid

(PFOA) that, according to a recent study from UCLA, may be linked toinfertility. Microwaving vaporizes the chemicals as they move from

coating the bag to lining the popcorn. But it's not like this fact is un-

acknowledged. In fact the article points out that DuPont, as well as

other manufacturers, have "promised to phase out PFOA by 2015

under a voluntary EPA plan, but millions of bags of popcorn will be

sold between now and then."

The Solution: Pop your own popcorn the way they did it in the olden

days--in a pot.

4. Conventionally Grown (Not Organic) Potatoes

The Expert: Jeffrey Moyer, chair of the National Organic Standards

Board.

The Reason: Herbicides and pesticides may not be sprayed directly on

root vegetables (since they're underground), but they absorb the

chemicals through the soil and water. Because potatoes are consideredthe nation's most popular vegetable, producing a healthy crop is

essential to keep up with demand. In order to maintain their health,

the article exposes the scary fact that "they're treated with fungicides

during the growing season, then sprayed with herbicides to kill off the

fibrous vines before harvesting. After they're dug up, the potatoes are

treated yet again to prevent them from sprouting." But here's the scary

thing, Moyer says that he's talked to potato growers "who say point-

 blank they would never eat the potatoes they sell. They have separateplots where they grow potatoes for themselves without all the

chemicals."

The Solution: Another no-brainer— Only buy organic potatoes.

5. Farmed Salmon

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The Expert: David Carpenter, MD, director of the Institute for Health

and the Environment at the University at Albany and publisher of a

major study in the journal Science on contamination in fish.

The Reason: When salmon is crammed into pens, fed soy, poultry

litter, and hydrolyzed chicken feathers (obviously an unnaturalenvironment for the up-stream swimmers), they're levels of healthy

vitamin D lowers as the contaminants increases. Those contaminants

include carcinogens, PCBs, brominated flame retardants, and

pesticides (like DDT). The article points out that DDT has been linked

to both diabetes and obesity, quoting Carpenter in saying that "You can

only safely eat one of these salmon dinners every 5 months without

increasing your risk of cancer... It's that bad."

The Solution: Avoid farmed salmon and instead select wild-caughtAlaskan salmon. But make sure the packaging reads "wild." If it just

says "fresh Atlantic," according to the article, "it's farmed."

6. Milk Produced with Artificial Hormones

The Expert: Rick North, project director of the Campaign for Safe Food

at the Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility and former CEO of

the Oregon division of the American Cancer Society.The Reason: Unlike in the olden days when fresh milk was some of the

purest nutrients you could get, dairy cows today are fed growth

hormones like rBGH and rBST to increase milk production. Problem is,

while they may be making more milk, they are also increasing their

chances of udder infections (which can lead to pus in the milk). More

than that, the article points out that high levels of IGF-1 from the rBGH

may play a role in the development of breast, prostate, and colon

cancers... which is why North says that "it's banned in mostindustrialized countries."

The Solution: Read the labels and be sure that your milk doesn't

contain rBGH or rBST and that it is labeled organic or "produced

without artificial hormones." 

7. Conventional Apples

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The Expert: Mark Kastel, former executive for agribusiness and co-

director of the Cornucopia Institute, a farm-policy research group that

supports organic foods

The Reason: Apples are the recipient of the most pesticides of all Fall

fruits. Chemical producers swear that the residue is not harmful forhuman consumption, but the Yahoo! Article goes on to quote Kastel in

saying that "Farm workers have higher rates of many cancers."

The Solution: Buy organic apples where available or at least

thoroughly wash and peel apples before eating them.