NATURAL WAY TO LOWER CHOLESTEROL FOOD CONTAINING PLANT STEROLS PHYTOSTEROLS LOWER LDL CHOLESTEROL BUT WHICH ARE THEY

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Many people would like to use food and natural ways to lower cholesterol. People would prefer to use natural ways to lower cholesterol. That was obvious from the response to my post about foods that lower LDL bad cholesterol. Another "natural" approach to cholesterol lowering involves foods containing plant stanol or sterol esters. So called phytosterols lower serum cholesterol levels. Plant sterols or phytosterols are plant substances whose chemical structure is similar to cholesterol but differ in such a way that they don't have the negative impact on the human body that regular cholesterol does. Plant stanol esters actively work by helping to block cholesterol from being absorbed into the digestive system, reducing "bad" LDL cholesterol levels while maintaining "good" HDL cholesterol levels.

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How do you get these plant cholesterol blockers? There are many plant sources of phytosterols such as wheat germ. But now food manufacturers, addressing the mass appeal of cholesterol lowering are adding plant sterols into their food products to produce a cholesterol lowering effect. For example there are margarine like spreads such as Benecol and Take Control. I have seen and tried a mayonnaise called Smart Balance Omega Plus which combines omega 3 and plant sterols.








There are drinks such as Promise Supershots. A company called Corazonas Foods (corazon is Spanish for the heart, get it?) has a line of snack foods including potato chips that contain cholesterol lowering plant sterols. Note I have no connection to any of these products but I think they sound like reasonable ideas. It certainly beats eating high cholesterol high saturated fat products.

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A PDF of Inhibition of cholesterol absorption by phytosterol-replete wheat germ compared with phytosterol-depleted wheat germ1–3