Cucumber: crisp and delicious, with heat, thirst, diuretic effect. The cellulose it contains promotes the discharge of food waste from the intestines and reduces the absorption of cholesterol.
Cucumber also contains a substance called "propionic acid," which inhibits the conversion of sugars into fat in the body, which has the effect of reducing weight and regulating lipid metabolism.
Eggplant: contains a variety of vitamins, especially the purple eggplant contains more vitamin P, can enhance cell adhesion and improve microvascular elasticity. Medical research shows that eggplant can lower cholesterol, but also prevent blood vessel damage caused by hyperlipidemia, can be used to help treat hypertension, hyperlipidemia, arteriosclerosis and other diseases.
Mung Bean: Summer Qingshu Jiapin, has a role in lowering blood lipids, protecting the heart, and preventing coronary heart disease. Animal experiments show that mung beans can effectively reduce serum cholesterol, triglycerides and low-density lipoprotein, significantly reduce coronary atherosclerotic lesions. Clinical practice has also proved that adequate daily consumption of mung beans in patients with hyperlipidemia has a significant cholesterol-lowering effect.
Shiitake: With Xiaoshi, fat, blood pressure and other effects. The cellulose contained in it can promote gastrointestinal motility, prevent constipation, and reduce intestinal absorption of cholesterol. Mushrooms also contain nucleic acids such as mushrooms and purines that promote cholesterol breakdown. Regular consumption of mushrooms reduces total cholesterol and triglycerides.
Sweet Potatoes: Nutrition studies have found that moderate consumption of sweet potatoes can prevent lipid deposition in the cardiovascular system, prevent atherosclerosis, reduce subcutaneous fat, and avoid excessive obesity. It should be noted that excessive intake of sweet potatoes can increase the total calories consumed in the diet, and it is not conducive to lowering blood lipids.
Hawthorn: mainly contains maslinic acid, citric acid, lipolytic acid, vitamin C, flavonoids, carbohydrates and other ingredients, with the role of dilation of blood vessels, improve microcirculation, lower blood pressure, promote cholesterol excretion and reduce blood lipids. Hawthorn is an acidic food, so it should not be eaten on an empty stomach, nor should it be eaten too long. It is best eaten after a meal.
Apple: A study abroad has shown that eating one apple a day can reduce the risk of coronary heart disease death by half, thanks to the flavonoids contained in apples. Flavonoids are natural antioxidants that exert anti-atherosclerotic effects by inhibiting oxidation of low-density lipoproteins. In addition, pectin in apples can also lower cholesterol levels and therefore help prevent atherosclerosis. Although the cause of obesity varies from person to person, in Chinese medicine, obesity is caused by liver water loosening and dissipating, the spleen and stomach are restrained, water does not wet, and rouge stops. Therefore, it is necessary to start from the diet and regulate body functions.
Carrots: Dissolve cholesterol
Modern studies have found that carrots contain a large amount of bio-potassium. When potassium enters the blood, it can emulsify the oil in the blood and effectively dissolve the "cholesterol-hardened plaque" deposited on the blood vessel walls and excrete these wastes from the body. .
Achieve hypolipidemic effect, reduce blood viscosity, purify blood, “clean†blood vessels, increase blood vessel elasticity, and improve microcirculation.
Radish fiber contains a substance called calcium pectate, which binds to bile acids in the body and acts as a cholesterol-reducing agent.
The higher the amount of cholesterol in the body, the greater the cholesterol-reducing effect of pectin in carrots; the normal amount of cholesterol in the body, and the corresponding decrease in the effectiveness of pectin, will not affect human cholesterol levels.
Scientists believe that insisting on eating two carrots every day (or often) can reduce cholesterol by 10% to 20% within a long period of time.
Onion: raises good cholesterol
Onion is one of the few vegetables that contain prostaglandin A. Prostaglandin A is a strong vasodilator that softens blood vessels, lowers blood viscosity, increases coronary blood flow, and promotes sodium compounds that cause high blood pressure. Excretion, therefore, can not only regulate blood lipids, but also reduce blood pressure and prevent thrombosis.
Even more valuable is that onion contains an essential oil that not only lowers cholesterol, improves atherosclerosis, but also raises “good cholesterolâ€â€”high-density lipoprotein content.
Green bean sprouts: expel cholesterol
Mung bean itself is a good cholesterol-lowering food, and in its germination process, vitamin C can reach six or seven times as much as the original content of mung bean. A large amount of vitamin C can promote the excretion of cholesterol and prevent its deposition on the inner wall of the artery.
The green bean sprouts' dietary fiber can help remove rubbish from the body. It can also be combined with the cholesterol in the food and convert it into bile acid to excrete it, thereby lowering cholesterol levels.
Mung bean sprouts taste cool, rich in water, you can also solve tired fluid, is a rare slimming side dishes.
Apple: Absorb excess cholesterol
Apple is a "lipid-lowering fruit" easily overlooked by people. Its lipid-lowering effect stems from its abundant pectin. It is a water-soluble dietary fiber that binds bile acids and absorbs excess cholesterol and glycerol like a sponge. Ester and help it out of the body.
Pectin can also be combined with other cholesterol-lowering substances such as vitamin C, fructose, etc. to enhance the hypolipidemic effect.
In addition, the decomposition of acetic acid by apples also facilitates the catabolism of cholesterol and triglycerides.
Salmon: Triglyceride is a good hand
Salmon is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, which can lower blood triglyceride levels, and can increase high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and increase blood vessel elasticity. In freshwater fish, salmon is a highly recommended lipid-lowering food.
Although the fat content of carp is relatively high, most of them are unsaturated fatty acids, which can help eliminate blood vessel "junk" and lower cholesterol.
Shellfish cholesterol content is not the same, scallops, oysters contain low cholesterol, can be eaten in moderation, shrimp, crab, squid with high cholesterol, it is best to eat less.
Peeled chicken: Most fat can be removed
Compared to red meat such as pigs, cattle and sheep, poultry meat (white meat) containing more unsaturated fatty acids is of course more suitable for people with dyslipidemia.
However, when you eat poultry meat, you must remember to peel it. Among them, chicken is the best source of protein. Peeling can remove most of the fat, which is the first choice for poultry.
However, even if ducks and geese are peeled, they still contain more fat and should eat less. Egg yolks are rich in cholesterol and the protein is essentially free of cholesterol.
Peanuts: Phytosterols Beat Cholesterol
Peanuts are rich in phytosterols, a type of sterol compound that is commonly found in dried fruits and can compete with cholesterol to inhibit cholesterol absorption and lower blood cholesterol levels.
In addition, peanuts are also rich in unsaturated fatty acids, choline, lecithin and other nutrients, can make the body's cholesterol into bile acids and excreted.
Walnut kernels, sesame seeds, almonds and hazelnuts are also suitable for small snacks used by people with dyslipidemia. For example, sesame seeds are rich in linoleic acid and lecithin, which can reduce cholesterol in the blood. Sesamin can inhibit the absorption and synthesis of cholesterol and improve it. Hyperlipidemia.