Introduction

Fundamental rules:

Two types of foods to be well know:

• The saturated fats

• Foods rich in cholesterol

The saturated fats are your principal enemy. They relate to primarily animal fats (solid at ambient temperature) with an exclusion with the fish fats. But the sea foods have a huge level of cholesterol. See foods are good for a diet but not for people affected by the cholesterol. What a paradox!

The practice:

used fats are vegetables and are useful for cooking or with accompaniment of foods (olive oil, grape pips oil, vegetable margarine).

The dairy products which you consume without restriction will be always with a very low fat level. The regular milk contains animal fats. Therefore, you only can consume skimmed milk. And the light cheeses have to be consumed with moderation.

The bread, the pastas, the rices, the fruits and the vegetables without moderation.

The white meats (with an exception with the pork) and the fish are the best friends.

A place of choice is reserved with the apple rich in pectin whose regular consumption cause a drop in cholesterol.

It is the same with the red wine with moderated consumption (two daily glasses) contributes to the reduction of the cholesterol.

Certain modes of cooking must be privileged (will be discussed in a whole part).

With your doctor, a diet must be checked and monitored, especially in the first time. We advice you to meet your doctor at least once a month.

These regular visits have two essential goals.

1. To control your results:

You must make sure that the objectives to reach were obtained:

• With the control of your weight, all the time with the same balance and if possible at the same time

• with the blood tests, at the end of two, four and six months

2 To better inform you

You can put to your doctor all the questions which will not fail to be binding on you and and thus to make preciser certain particular points in connection with your personality.

In the event of insufficient results the doctor will ask you to fill a book or a notebook on which you will note each day the exact composition of all your meals.

By reading this document, your doctor will be able to correct the large or small errors which you will have sometimes made unconsciously.

Lightened butters and margarine's:

Regular butter:

It is very rich in cholesterol (250mg for 100 grams). In comparison, a fish contains ten times less cholesterol. Also lightened butters with 41% fat initially appeared and at present with 25% fat thus containing four times less animal fat and cholesterol.

Margarine's:

They consist of a homogeneous mixture (blending) of fat and water. One calls that an emulsion. It is clear that the margarine's manufactured from animal fats are contra-indicated in your diet. Their only interest is their attractive price. The vegetable margarine are much healthier, easy to spread out on a piece of brood but there are more expensive.

A little revolution:

The recent arrival on the market in margarine's enriched with vegetable strolls represents a considerable progress in the field of fight against cholesterol. Indeed, these strolls are supposed to reduce the rate of bad cholesterol, cholesterol LLD. The manufacturers announces a fall from 10 to 15% of the cholesterol LLD for a daily consumption of 20 gram of the product for one month within the framework of a well followed diet.

More info about how you can end up with your cholesterol with these new subjects in the next articles:

Fishes and sea foods, Meats and fat materials,

Is the wine your enemy? , 3 lists: Good fats and the bad fats + False friends of the cholesterol's + The black list of the foods very rich in cholesterol, Best modes of cooking, Ten rules to follow, Test your future level of cholesterol with a list of questions