Healthy Life

Fruit and Vegetable

Cholesterol is a fatty substance found in the blood and body cells, and is an essential nutrient that the human body needs to perform its primary function. According to the American Heart Association (AHA), cholesterol is used to form cell membranes and hormones.

But cholesterol can also cause various diseases when cholesterol becomes bad. Dr Kasim Rasjidi, SpPD-KKV, DTM & H, MCTM, MHA, SpJP, FIHA say a person has normal cholesterol levels 160-200 mg in size, while incoming hazardous condition if it is above 240 mg because it can cause a stroke.

How to lower cholesterol in the body by eating fruits and vegetables:

1. Pomegranate (pomegranate), an antioxidant that helps protect the body against free radical damage due to metabolic and environmental factors. According to the book Cholesterol Cures, pomegranate juice may slow the process of oxidation of LDL cholesterol (Low Density Lipoprotein or bad cholesterol) by 40 percent, thereby reducing congestion in the blood and arteries. Pomegranate is also rich in polyphenols, flavonoids are present as a diminutive general cholesterol as found in green tea.

2. Fruit juice, rich in pectin which helps in lowering cholesterol by the moderator whether the absorption of fat and sugar. Lemon also provide the amount of vitamin C is quite a lot.

3. Tomatoes, substance inside 9-oxo-compounds that are able mengartasi oktadekadioneat dyslipidemia, or abnormal levels of fat in the blood. Abnormal levels of fat in the blood vessels is a risk factor jantung.Tomat attack can also help reduce cholesterol in the blood.

4. Grape purple, a substance of flavonoids in purple grape juice inhibits platelet activity due to cholesterol which is a substance in the blood that help blood to clot may contribute to the development of heart attack by collecting on artery plaque.