Quick Tip and Foods to Lower Cholesterol

February is American Heart Month. So, when I came across Millie’s Quick Tip and foods to lower cholesterol, I had this month’s Millie’s Musing! Perfect.

Here’s the “Quick Tip: For a healthy heart keep your LDL (bad cholesterol) below 130 and your HDL (good cholesterol) above 65. It’s easy with the right foods.”

Millie’s note provides two food suggestions to lower cholesterol.

It says: “Pears contain an all-natural compound called lignin, which is mother nature’s most ingenious antidote to high cholesterol. Lignin acts just like nutritional Velcro, attaching itself to the cholesterol in your body, trapping it in your intestines and ushering it right out of your system, so you don’t absorb it!  Pears are just one of the foods rich in lignin. So, bite into a pear and watch your cholesterol go down!”

(Well, I don’t know if it’s that easy! Maybe eating pears regularly and also other foods that contain lignins.)

The note continues: “Oatmeal lowers cholesterol. Oats contain natural compounds that are 50% more powerful than even Vitamin E in reducing your risk of heart disease. So, from a single bowl of goodness each morning, you’ll clean out your arteries.”

Well, thanks again Millie for the good advice! Now we know how we can eat for a healthy heart with foods to lower cholesterol!