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Daily Totals: 1,496 calories, 77g fat, 98g protein, 108g carbohydrate, 30g fiber, 1,783mg sodium. Make it 1,800 calories: Add 1 medium apple with 2 Tbsp. natural peanut butter as an evening snack.
The dietary guidelines recommend getting between 25 and 38 grams of fiber a day and .8 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight a day. (That would mean a woman weighing 140 pounds who lives a ...
This is noteworthy because a high-fiber diet is good for your heart. In fact, adding six grams of fiber a day to your diet reduces the risk of dying from heart disease by 25% .
[1] [2] The diet emphasizes using a portfolio of foods or food components that have been found to associate with cholesterol lowering to enhance this effect. Soluble fiber, soy protein, plant sterols, and nuts are the four essential components of Portfolio diet. [3] The diet is low in saturated fat, high in fibre.
Patients should reduce their intake of saturated fats, dietary cholesterol, and alcohol, and increase their intake of total fibre (≥30g/day), viscous soluble fibre (≥10g/day), and omega-3 (EPA and DHA [2-4g/d] used to lower TG only). They should also increase the proportion of mono-and polyunsaturated fats that they intake. [4]
The human body makes one-eighth to one-fourth teaspoons of pure cholesterol daily. A cholesterol level of 5.5 millimoles per litre or below is recommended for an adult. The rise of cholesterol in the body can give a condition in which excessive cholesterol is deposited in artery walls called atherosclerosis. This condition blocks the blood flow ...
The mineral helps regulate blood pressure. To maximize the fiber content, eat the peel as well as the flesh: one baked potato with skin has a total of 14 grams of fiber—6 grams more than without ...
The degree of cholesterol reduction depends upon the particular strain of β-glucan in a range between a molecular weights of 26.8 and 3000 kD. [3] Although more viscous β-glucans result in a more viscous solution of intestinal digesta, and thus more cholesterol uptake, after a certain molecular weight, β-glucans become less soluble and thus ...