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It helps diet that contains vegetables, nuts and grains rich in fiber in reducing cholesterol more than a diet that includes food a little saturated fat despite being also a vegetarian, according to a recent medical study.
Canadian researchers say that what caused this diet from a significant drop in bad cholesterol enough to be an alternative to statin drugs covered by a lot of patients with high levels of cholesterol.
The author of the study d. David Jenkins of the University of Toronto, "of course, the latest drug of statins big difference in controlling diseases of the arteries, but that so far, at least more than it did not happen."
He continued that "one out of every four people aged 45 years and older are taking drugs to reduce cholesterol in the United States."
In this study, Jenkins and his colleagues tried to determine the effect of such a diet to reduce cholesterol without the use of drugs statins.
The researchers divided the sample of 351 members of the Canadian people, who suffer high levels of cholesterol into three groups randomly: the first group followed a vegetarian diet low in saturated fats for a period of six months.
The second and third groups were the dietitian as food for them more capable of reducing cholesterol, such as soy, nuts, oats, peas, beans and milk. They were the second group they meet twice during the study period, while the other seven times to follow vegetarian diet they followed all.
After six months, people who followed a vegetarian diet saw a small decrease in saturated fat cholesterol of 8 milligrams per 10 liters on average, compared with 24 milligrams in every 10 liters lower when the participants in the second diet shortener cholesterol.
He told d. Aoenchenj what researcher in nutrition and heart disease from Massochest University who was not involved in the study that "This is a significant reduction, of course."
In the diet group shortener cholesterol participants were asked to eat nearly a gram of plant sterols found in margarine per 1,000 calories of food they eat in addition to about 10 grams of fiber in the form of oats, barley and 22.5 grams of soy protein and 220.5 grams of walnuts per 1,000 calories.
He added. Aoenchenj What: "A lot of people rely on drugs, but the diet has a real effect which people are ignorant. They believe that if they took statins regularly can eat what they want from a diet rich in fat, leaving the drug task of dealing with it."
The study showed that people of every five participants succeeded in reducing cholesterol before the study is completed, even those people who did not fully commit to the proposed diet.
Researchers on the participants confirmed that they stop completely taking statins during the study period. But how much the amount of the decline can be caused by a combination of new diet with statins. This is what the researchers will attempt to detect it in a future study.
Some researchers believe that such a diet may not be enough for some people who spend long hours without movement or carry problem genes increase cholesterol.
She told d. Joan calculations head of nutrition at the University of Loma Linda, California, that "a healthy diet may be enough for the majority of people who do not follow the life style well enough, but to change their lifestyle for the better through the exercise with a healthy diet can control the cholesterol level well." .
high fiber diet like fruits, vegetables oats, barley and soya foods.
Low carbs, high fiber diet
Diet which contains 5 to 7 servings fresh fruits and vegetables will help to improve the cholesterol in your body. Since, the cholesterol is hard to get away from the body, we have to make the time table of physical activity to accomplish the cholesterol reduction.
water is also plays an important role in cholesterol reduction. If you drink more water, the amount of food taken is reduced significantly. So automatically the body will look up for the energy for the body's basic metabolism. (Note: Don;t think that water intake alone can reduce the cholesterol.)
Boiled foods, Sea foods can be added. Garlic and ginger in the empty stomach also can reduce the cholesterol..
Diets containing Soluble dietry fibers and antioxidants are good against hypercholesterol. Viscousfibersareresponsibleforbeneficialphysiologicalresponses in human, animal, and animal-alternative in vitro models (Cheryl et al., 2006). These responses are altered primarily byβ-glucan,butarabinoxylanmayalsoinfluencethesechanges since both types of fiber have a tendency to increase viscosity in solutions (Newman and Newman,1992). There is evidence indicatingthat β-glucanandotherdietaryfibershaveprotective roles to play in preventing or delaying the onset of chronic diseases and disorders such as coronary heart disease (Liu et al., 2000;Truswell,2002),diabetesmellitus,cancer,andcolondysfunction (Meyer et al., 2000; Sudha et al., 2007). Tungland and Meyer (2003) also reviewed a range of dietary fiber including β-glucan with reference to beneficial physiological influences that they exert on the human body. To achieve these physiological responses 3 g soluble fiber consumption daily may lower the total cholesterol by 0.41 mmolL−1 in hypercholesterolemic persons and 0.13 mmolL−1 in normocholesterolemic persons (Kerckhoffsetal.,2003).Similarly,Behalletal.(1997)reported that ingestion of 2.1 g of β-glucan on a daily basis reduces total cholesterolby9.5%,whereassomefindingsbysomeresearchers (Jenkins et al., 2002) indicated that 4 units decline in glycemic indexcanbeachievedbytaking1gof β-glucanper50gofcarbohydrates. FDA has also recommended a daily consumption of 3 g β-glucan to achieve such health benefits (FDA, 1997). In a comparison study to evaluate the effect of oat bran and oat meal(samequantity)onreductionofLDL-cholesterol,oatbran was found to have a greater capability over oat meal to reduce LDL-cholesterol levels (Davidson et al., 1991). As concerned with source of β-glucan, barley β-glucan was more effective in the regulation of glucose and insulin responses compared to oat β-glucan (Hallfrisch and Behall, 2000; Yokoyama et al., 1997; Hallfrisch et al., 2003; Granfeldt et al., 2008). Regarding the cholesterolloweringmechanismandbindingofbileacid,itwas noticed that β-glucan containing extrudates from oat have an ability to bind bile acid and to replenish the deficiency of bile acid, more cholesterol from the body is consumed for the synthesis of bile acid thus lowering the serum cholesterol level in the body (Drzikova et al., 2005). Higher bile acid binding capacity in oat β-glucan can be achieved by amination (Liu et al., 2010) and oxidation (Park et al., 2009) thus help in the removal of more cholesterol due to the introduction of cationic groups intothe β-glucanmolecules(Shinetal.,2005;Liuetal.,2010). Apart from cereal grains such as barley, oats, rye, certain fungi containing β-D-glucan have a capacity to reduce total blood cholesterol level within the body (Genc et al., 2001; Ozdemir and Genc, 2001). Oat extract diets are considered to lower the total and LDL cholesterol levels, and a significant difference with respect to lowering of cholesterol was also observed within both high oat and low oat containing diets. This difference was attributed due to difference in β-glucan contents in the diets (Behall et al., 1997).
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http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10408398.2010.499806#.VvjgRfl97IU
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