Free Low Cholesterol Diets Recipes Can Be A Powerful Natural Way To Lower High Cholesterol

It still amazes me how many people don't care about their cholesterol. This probably explains why over 13 million people died of heart attack and stroke in the United States last year. While the revelations above may seem a bit gloomy, the good news is that you are here looking to gain information about free cholesterol diets in hopes of finding a diet for lower cholesterol that will produce sustained healthful results.

It is my belief that you will leave here with some really good ideas that I personally use to keep my cholesterol in check. After reading this article you will not only have a couple of ingredients for free low cholesterol diets but will have gained some valuable information about both cholesterol and product label reading.

One thing I can't stress enough is the importance of label reading before purchasing any ingredient for inclusion into any of your newly created free cholesterol diets. Some labels will be surprising deceiving while others will be even better than expected. Terms often used in food labeling are reduced fat, light, low fat, reduced or fewer calories, and fat free. Let's look at each one in a little more detail.

*Reduced fat: 25% less fat than the same brand in its regular form.

*Light: 50% less fat than the same brand in its regular form.

*Low fat: 3 grams or less of fat per serving. Watch out here, the serving size might be much smaller than you think.

*Reduced fat: 25% or less calories that in its original form.

*Fat free: Less than 0.5 grams of fat per serving.

While the above label reading guidelines are valuable if you can find products that are labeled fat free, or 98 or 99 percent fat free, you likely will have a winner in your person war against cholesterol.

Today we have a grouping of products that would fit nicely in anyone's top list of free cholesterol diets.

Some canned chili is a much as 40 percent saturated fat. Saturated fat, is our artery clogging mortal enemy in the battle against high cholesterol, and should be avoided or limited at all costs. With this in mind one manufacturer (Hormel) has come out with a line of great tasting canned chili that is anywhere from 98 percent to 99 percent fat free. The 98 percent turkey chili contains 210 calories per serving, 5 percent total fat, 5 percent saturated fat, and 0 trans fat. The more healthful choice for inclusion in any of our free cholesterol diets would be the vegetarian with bean variety which is 99 percent fat free. It contains a paltry 2 percent total fat, *0 saturated fat, 0 trans fat, and 190 calories.

Note: You could also make these already healthy choices even more powerful by adding a small portion of fresh garlic before cooking.

A small side salad with low fat or not fat dressing or lemon wedges topped with an avocado slice and a few walnuts and you will have created a recipe that could be included in even the strictest of free low cholesterol diets.

Additionally, many natural health minded individuals have found that by combining diet modification with natural cholesterol lowering remedies they have been able to achieve even better results. Something to consider, wouldn't you say?