Foods To Lower Your Cholesterol

Best Food To Lower Cholesterol

The best foods to lower your cholesterol are high fiber foods!

The 6 Weeks To The New You weight loss program is all about high fiber foods!

Soluble fiber has been shown to reduce the absorption of cholesterol in your bloodstream.

All NON-starchy fruits and vegetables are high in fiber and relatively low in calories and sugars.

Other Foods Known To Reduce Cholesterol

Other foods that are known to reduce cholesterol include oats or oatmeal and oat bran. Oats have been shown in clinical tests to reduce your low-density lipoprotein.

Avocados have also shown a reduction in cholesterol levels during clinical tests in a very short time period.

Omega-3 Fatty Acids Reduce Cholesterol

Fish and other foods high in omega-3 fatty acids have also been shown to be heart healthy and reduce cholesterol levels.  Foods that contain omega-3 fatty acids in addition to fish include flax, flax oil, grape seed oil, olive oil and avocados.

Nuts Good For Cholesterol

Nuts are good for your cholesterol too. They are high in polyunsaturated fatty acids. They also help to keep your blood vessels clean. Nuts are high in calories so remember that a small handful is plenty!

Foods To Avoid

The foods to avoid when your doctor tells you that you have high cholesterol include:

• animal fats
• margarine
• hydrogenated fats
• mixes
• white grains

The 6 Weeks To The New You is really 6 weeks to a new way of eating that includes a diet high in cholesterol lowering foods.

Exercises To Get More Out Of A Walk

A hundred years ago no one went to the gym because everyone got all their exercise as they went about their daily activities.

Today we should make the most out of every activity we do. I call this ‘do anywhere exercises.’

Build Muscle When Walking

One of the few things we actually do for ourselves any more is walk. You can make walking an exercise in itself.

• Squeeze your butt cheeks while you walk and firm up some flab. It is amazing how tiring this can be. You literally flex your whole body when you just flex your butt cheeks.
• Do the muscle man pose while you walk. Flexing your entire upper body while walking and crunch down to work the abs in.
• Put the two together and make walking a real workout!

It is amazing that if you actually do this while walking into the office or the mall everyday you can firm up muscles and even get sore muscles if you overdo it.

Get More Exercise Without Going To The Gym

Yup, we should all go to the gym and we all have busy lives. Why not exercise everywhere you go and make the most of every activity? Try it!

If you do it often enough you will be able to isolate muscle groups and really maximize the efforts! It is fun when coupled with some positive thoughts/affirmations.

Healthy Diet Tips For 2012 – Happy New Year!

Healthy Diet Tips For New Year

The last of our holiday eating series, this video focuses on small tips or skills that you can incorporate into your eating habits that will give you the skills to eat a healthy diet so that will power is not needed! (Sorry it is so late in the day… had some production issues!)

A Diet Sustains Life

This video will give you another tip on how to enjoy your holidays and still eat to sustain life. A diet is not a weight loss program… it is a living program.

Watch this 14 minute, 22 second video about how to make good food choices & live healthy while you enjoy your food and friends.

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Happy Healthy New Year!

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