Tip
of the Week
Tip
of the Week
Instead of using either butter or margarine, try one of the new
spreads that contain cholesterol-lowering ingredients called plant stanol esters.
You should be able to find a few different brands of these bread spreads at your local
grocery store. Research has shown that these new spreads can lower your cholesterol
as much as 14% with regular use. To see an improvement that impressive, however,
you'll need to include the spread in your diet three times per day.
In general, it is recommended that you consume no more than 300 milligrams of cholesterol
per day. However, for most people, consumption of fat influences levels of
cholesterol in the blood far more than consumption of cholesterol itself. Only by
measuring blood levels before and after restricting dietary cholesterol do you know your
responsiveness to dietary restriction of cholesterol. People who show a particular
sensitivity to dietary cholesterol should eat even less than 300 milligrams daily to
retard or reverse arterial aging.
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