Here are dietary recommendations for hypercholesterolemia
- Achieve or maintain a healthy weight through adequate intake of calories.
- Distribute meals in divided doses, as a fractional power positively influences the level of blood lipids.
- It is necessary to limit:
- Organs or offal: liver, kidneys, brains, etc.
- Seafood: Squid and shrimp.
- Meat products: Sausages fat, foie gras and pates, sausages and burgers trade, etc.
- Reduce consumption of saturated fat and cholesterol:- Choose the leanest meats and remove visible fat before cooking (see table recommended foods) and defatted broth of meat or poultry cold. – Increase consumption of fish weekly to about four servings, and often try to take more oily fish.
- Are allowed up to 4 eggs a week (depending on the degree of hypercholesterolemia and never more than one yolk per day).
Dress the plates with vegetable oils (olive, sunflower) instead of butter or margarine.
- Reduce the consumption of meat by the association usually found between proteins and saturated fats in these foods, and increase plant protein in the same dish combining beans and grains (beans or lentils with rice, pasta with peas).
- Prepare meals and then freeze them, and thus not having to go to cooked food, which can be cooked with more oil.
- Today, there are several products on the market low in fat and cholesterol (check label).
- If you eat out, choose from the menu salads, poultry or fish grilled instead of fried or stews. To avoid adding too much sauce can be ordered they be served on hand and add it yourself.
- Increase consumption of fiber and natural antioxidants:
- Taking at least 2 pieces of fruit a day, preferably with skin or flesh, trying to include a citrus fruit.
- Choosing preferably whole grain products: bread, rice, pasta …
- Increasing vegetable consumption to 3 times per week.
- Taking at least 2 servings of vegetables or salad (raw or cooked) daily.
- People who make wine, you should do in moderation (2 glasses of wine a day).
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