Foods to lower your cholesterol

[David Baxter PhD]

Top 5 foods to lower your cholesterol
Mayo Clinic
Aug. 16, 2008

Can a bowl of oatmeal help prevent a heart attack? It might not be that simple, but diet can play an important role in lowering your cholesterol. Consider these cholesterol-lowering foods:

1. Oatmeal and oat bran.
2. Walnuts and almonds.
3. Fish, especially mackerel, lake trout, herring, sardines, albacore tuna and salmon.
4. Olive oil.
5. Foods fortified with plant sterols or stanols, such as margarines, orange juice and yogurt drinks.

See Also

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[Daniel E.]

Oat beta-glucan - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

In 1997, after reviewing 33 clinical studies performed over the previous decades, the FDA approved the claim that intake of at least 3 g of β-glucan from oats per day "as part of a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol, may reduce the risk of heart disease."

This marked the first time a public health agency claimed dietary intervention can actually help prevent disease. This health claim mobilized a dietary movement as physicians and dietitians for the first time could recommend intake of a specific food to directly combat disease.

Since then, oat consumption has continued to gain traction in disease prevention with noted effects on ischemic heart disease and stroke prevention, but also in other areas like BMI reduction, blood pressure lowering and highly corroborated evidence for reduced blood serum cholesterol