subject: What is Cholesterol and Dietary Guidelines [print this page] What is Cholesterol and Dietary Guidelines
What is cholesterol? - Complex lipid (fat kind), which belongs to a group of sterols. Located in animal foods. Our body can make it to the liver. Cholesterol is an important building block in the walls of our cells and forms an insulating layer of nerve cells. In addition, one of the basic substances of various hormones, which in turn controls the process of metabolism and affect the immune system? In addition, cholesterol is the basic substance of vitamin D and it is needed for the production of bile acids.
What we have to restrict food and turn it into a diet to put on the increased value of cholesterol.
Recommended value:
Total cholesterol less than 5 mmol / l
LDL - bad cholesterol less than 3 mmol / l
HDL - good cholesterol more than 1 mmol / l
Limit:
White bread, pastry
Sweetened cereals (muesli, bars)
Fried potatoes, chips, croquettes
Egg pasta
Sweetened canned fruit and fruit products
Fat meat, offal, sausages, pies
Fish salad with mayonnaise
Egg yolk and dishes, mayonnaise
Whole milk, fat yoghurt, cream
Fat cheese, cream
Butter, lard, bacon
Hardened frying fat, mayo
Sweetened soft drinks
Fruit juices with added sugar
Frequent consumption of alcohol (spirits)
And condensed cream soups
Prepared meals, hot dogs
Burgers, sandwiches with mayonnaise
Cakes, sweets, biscuits, breadsticks, cakes
Ice cream, sugar, ice
Salt, seasoning mix
Ranking:
Whole meal bread, dark bread
Cereals without added sugar
Boiled potatoes (or unpeeled)
Gram, egg-free, pasta
Fresh vegetables and fruits
Lean meat, poultry, fish
Seafood salad without mayonnaise, in its own juice
Egg whites
Skimmed or semi-skimmed milk
Cheese, reduced fat
Vegetable fats, oils
Vegetable oil suitable for frying
Low fat dressings
Unsweetened table and mineral water
Sugar-free drinks, fruit juices and vegetables
Non-alcoholic beer
Clear broths supplemented by vegetables, meat...
Vegetables, pulses, pasta and salads
Honey, jelly, low sugar content
Pudding centrifuge. Milk
Garlic, herbs and spices simple
Good and bad cholesterol
In the blood are called lipoproteins carry cholesterol, HDL (good) and LDL (bad). HDL removes cholesterol from tissues to the liver, where it is then transported and excreted into the bile. HDL also has antioxidant effects.
Many of LDL and atherosclerosis
LDL and its high concentration in blood is associated with high cholesterol levels and significantly accelerates the development of atherosclerosis. And that atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), many patients suffer, in development with high cholesterol signs. The vascular walls are stored in fat, resulting in a blood vessel loses its elasticity and gradually tapering to her, and then to ischemia. The most striking are the changes in the coronary arteries of the heart (coronary heart disease), and then to the brain, kidneys and lower extremities.
