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 [...]

What are the best cooking oils to reduce cholesterol?

What are the best cooking oils to reduce cholesterol? Eat fat, lose weight, drop cholesterol! Seems nuts, right? Fat comes in different types - you've likely heard of saturated, monounsaturdated, and polyunsaturated fats. All of these have different functions.  Fats help cell membranes work and they are not the enemy, or something to be avoided as we have been doing since the 70's when the low-fat craze swept people into a fat-avoidance frenzy. Detailed research—much of it done at Harvard—shows that the total amount of fat in the diet isn't really linked with weight or disease. What really matters is [...]