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Banana oat muffins with almonds and blueberries (wheat free recipe for cholesterol reduction)
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Banana oat muffins with almonds and blueberries (wheat free recipe for cholesterol reduction)

Banana oat muffins with almonds and blueberries (wheat free recipe for cholesterol reduction) It's Day 1 of Oat Week at The Curious Giraffe! Today we are making muffins with oat flour and absolutely NO wheat. Before Oat Week gets underway, I wanted to clarify something. Why all this fuss about going 'wheat-free' or 'flourless' and using oats instead of wheat? Cardiologist William Davis, MD, author of Wheat Belly sums up wheat nicely (all forms including supposedly healthy forms like whole wheat, sprouted, etc.) as "incredibly destructive genetic monsters". His fascinating account of the genetic modification of wheat over the last [...]

Going beyond oatmeal: A week of recipes featuring oats (to reduce cholesterol)
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Going beyond oatmeal: A week of recipes featuring oats (to reduce cholesterol)

Going beyond oatmeal: A week of recipes featuring oats (to reduce cholesterol) When you are serious about staying healthy and trying to figure out how to reduce your cholesterol (as so many of us are these days), you realise quickly that sugar and flour are very dangerous to your health in general, and heart-health in particular. So you stop eating them. But then after a few months of dreams featuring dancing pastries and devilish thoughts about baked goods, you have to get creative. Wait a minute... It's oat week at The Curious Giraffe! href="https://theconfidencekitchen.com/2012/12/16/eat-this-daily-glorious-fat-olive-coconut-and-avocado-oils-to-reduce-cholesterol/">oils are good for heart health and [...]

Turmeric onion eggs with garlic avocado tomato and olive oil salsa (heart friendly)
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Turmeric onion eggs with garlic avocado tomato and olive oil salsa (heart friendly)

Turmeric onion eggs with garlic avocado tomato and olive oil salsa (heart friendly) Eggs can be part of a healthy eating program to help lower your cholesterol naturally. Yes, I know it goes against much of what you've probably heard, but as I find through my food research on almost a daily basis, the food recommendation literature out there is mostly commercially biased, or just plain wrong when it comes to helping us become heart healthy. As part of a cholesterol reducing heart friendly diet, a few eggs, or some studies even suggest up to between 7 to 14 lightly [...]

The cholesterol lowering shopping list part 1
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The cholesterol lowering shopping list part 1

The cholesterol lowering shopping list part 1 The shopping list you need to take action, get glowing, improve your heart health and start truly lowering your cholesterol Apples, pears, pineapples, bananas, oranges are on my fruit menu this week for cholesterol reduction. So far, I’ve had baked apples for dessert (stuffed with nuts & chocolate), had pineapple pear-mint smoothies, as well as loads of apples and oranges for snacks and smoothies. How do you make a food based change? Start with your shopping list. This is exactly what I did back in September 2011, when I was first [...]

Reduce cholesterol with daily oatmeal
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Reduce cholesterol with daily oatmeal

Reduce cholesterol with daily oatmeal Since 1997, oatmeal has been given the status of a "qualified health claim" by the FDA. Health claims on food labels are claims by manufacturers of food products that their food will reduce the risk of developing a disease or condition. This oatmeal health claim has allowed advertisers to mention it as a heart friendly ingredient on any products that contains oatmeal. There are very few foods that have approved health claims. Since the 97' ruling, oatmeal has been further reviewed, and Dr. James W. Anderson, professor of medicine and clinical nutrition at the University [...]

How to make a green smoothie to reduce your cholesterol (video)
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How to make a green smoothie to reduce your cholesterol (video)

How to make a green smoothie to reduce your cholesterol (video) After my last post on green smoothies to reduce cholesterol, a reader asked a question about quantities and practicalities. In general - you can't really do a smoothie "wrong". In other posts, I'll cover ways you can "jazz" up your morning smoothie to include other superfoods that have been proven to reduce cholesterol, but for now if you are getting your whole apple, half avocado and 2 cups of spinach packed into your blender, then you are doing very well! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVBB-ZYzOzI KEY TIPS: Just add enough liquid to the [...]