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August 16, 2006 | Issue 78 |
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The #1 Tip For Lowering Your Cholesterol
Question: “I drink nonfat milk. I order egg-white omelets. I’ve sworn off butter and red meat… So why has my cholesterol gone up?”
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Answer: “I wish I had a nickel for every time I’ve been asked this question,” smiles Director of Nutrition Jeff Novick. “I ALWAYS answer it with another question: ‘How much fiber are you eating every day?’
“Many people think they’re doing everything right, and a lot of what they’re doing is right. They’re ordering egg-white omelettes and seafood. They’ve cut out butter, cheese, and beef. They drink nonfat milk. This is all fantastic.
“But there’s one thing they haven’t done, and it’s the most important thing of all. They aren’t eating enough fiber-rich foods. It’s important because fiber lowers your cholesterol. It binds to the cholesterol in your body and pulls it out.”
And that’s only the beginning. Fiber also normalizes blood sugar levels, stabilizes insulin levels, helps you fill up on fewer calories so that you can lose weight more easily, helps prevent constipation, hemorrhoids, certain cancers, and much much more.
Optimally, say nutrition experts nationwide, we should be eating 35 to 50 grams of fiber every day. Americans average a mere 12 to 15 grams a day.
“To get your cholesterol down, your blood sugar down, your insulin levels down, and your weight down, you’ve got to start counting grams of dietary fiber,” counsels dietitian Jeff Novick.
“In fact, counting dietary fiber is more important than counting anything else.”
Where do you get fiber? Think soil. “You can’t find a food that grows out of the ground that isn’t fiber-rich,” says Jeff. So, yes, we’re talking fruits, vegetables, whole-grains like oats and barley, corn, potatoes, yams, and, the most fiber-packed food of all – beans.
Your goal? 45 to 50 fiber grams every day.
How do you count fiber grams throughout the day? “It’s simple, real simple,” encourages Jeff. You don’t even need to look at labels. Just remember:
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