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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 [...]

3 key steps to take charge of our health and healing
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3 key steps to take charge of our health and healing

3 key steps to take charge of our health and healing Yesterday I watched Andrew Saul, Ph.D, speaking about how poor nutrition is the primary cause of most forms of depression. Similar to the food based programme I follow to avoid and reverse heart disease, in this video interview (and if you haven't signed up for it yet - do follow the link for the free video series), Saul outlines how Vitamin C, plenty of fresh, raw organic food, cashews, Vitamin B3 (Niacin), and Tryptophan containing foods, are all proven and effective means of combatting depression naturally, without the side effects often seen [...]

Start a romance with raw food for heart health and new flavour explosions!
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Start a romance with raw food for heart health and new flavour explosions!

Start a romance with raw food for heart health and new flavour explosions! In mid 2012, when I was trying to figure out how to change my diet to tackle genetically high cholesterol, I did a tally of my raw food eating habits, and I was shocked at how little raw veg and fruit I was eating. Well actually it wasn't just the raw food that was missing, the total tally of of veg and fruit I was eating in general (cooked or raw) was way too low! Unfortunately, this is very common. This CDC report from 2009, shows that [...]

Finding foods you really love that are healthy and truly make you happy
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Finding foods you really love that are healthy and truly make you happy

Finding foods you really love that are healthy and truly make you happy I have had many different relationships with food. At various points in my life it's been this kind of inner dialogue and/or dance usually involving variable measures of restraint, overindulgence, guilt and then wheeee, circling back to restraint again. I know that I've lived through many seasons with a general feeling of heaviness with regards to food 'shoulds'. The weight of the food regulator often pressing not so gently down on my epicurean freedom. Because of my heart-friendly eating, I get asked all the time if it's [...]

Get healthy and feel incredible with easy daily habits
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Get healthy and feel incredible with easy daily habits

Get healthy and feel incredible with easy daily habits This is going to be a very self-indulgent post... I have realized that the most popular posts on The Confidence Kitchen are ones that are really practical or include a small step that can be done on a daily basis. To that end, I have a new mantra/direction for my blog...drumroll... "Get healthy and feel incredible with easy daily habits" I have created a new "about.me" page that covers my philosophy and why I am writing The Confidence Kitchen. I excerpt some of it below... I've gone down the rabbit hole [...]

9 best websites on how to lower cholesterol
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9 best websites on how to lower cholesterol

9 best websites on how to lower cholesterol [polldaddy rating="6471621"] If you're like me, and you have been recently diagnosed with higher than normal cholesterol or you are trying to eat a healthy cholesterol lowering diet in general (always a good idea!) you will probably want to start educating yourself on what you need to eat. Below are 9 websites that I've found very useful in putting together a food-based programme for myself to reduce my cholesterol naturally without statins. There's a lot of somewhat useful but repetitious info online (think: copy/paste), along with plain wrong and unfactual [...]

The cholesterol lowering shopping list part 2
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The cholesterol lowering shopping list part 2

The cholesterol lowering shopping list part 2 Prepare your pantry so it's ready for an energy boosting, beautifying, heart healthy, cholesterol lowerin' showdown! Lots of goodies await in my cholesterol reduction pantry! I keep these healthy troops ready to go, so that after work, when I'm hungry and tired, I don't have to think. I can just grab one of the recipes that I already picked out on the weekend, and know that I can make something in 15 minutes using stuff I have at home. Quick and super-yumtastic! In my last post I discussed the two different [...]

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 [...]

Focus on avoiding and reversing heart disease NOT merely lowering cholesterol
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Focus on avoiding and reversing heart disease NOT merely lowering cholesterol

Focus on avoiding and reversing heart disease NOT merely lowering cholesterol [polldaddy rating="6471621"] I have written before about how critical having a clear goal / target / focus is, in any health change program. So I ask you - what is your goal when it comes to reducing your cholesterol? There is a huge difference between seeking to reduce cholesterol as an end in itself, vs. seeking to improve heart health. This lack of distinction is what has erroneously sent millions of people world-wide to take cholesterol lowering drugs (Statins) everyday, even though, these same drugs have side effects that [...]