Hello Friends -
I need to reduce my cholesterol naturally. (get off of meds...)

I have printed out some guidelines from a good on-line source.

Unfortunately it's not for the Gastric Bypass patient.

Anyone still losing but adding fibers?
Any suggestions will be helpful

Thanks!

Nancy

For me, the best fiber bang for the buck is Fiber One cereal. It can be eaten as a breakfast cereal if you care to or a couple of tablespoons added in yogurt. It can be ground and added as a substitute for breading on meat and seafood. I dream up all kinds of things to add it to.

I eat lots of fiber...FiberOne cereal is my favorite and the Atkin's Advantage protein bars are high.

A differing opinion here---

first the idea that cholesterol is bad---

Cholesterol is an essential component in the body. It is found in all the cells of the body, particularly in the brain and nerve cells. Body cells are continually dying and new ones being made. Cholesterol is a major building block from which cell walls are made. Cholesterol is also used to make a number of other important substances: hormones (including the sex hormones), bile acids and, in conjunction with sunlight on the skin, vitamin D 3 . The body uses large quantities of cholesterol every day and the substance is so important that, with the exception of brain cells, every body cell has the ability to make it.

second the use of statins---

No study has shown a significant reduction in mortality in women treated with statins. The University of British Columbia Therapeutics Initiative came to the same conclusion, with the finding that statins offer no benefit to women for prevention of heart disease.

finally the fiber issue---

All the nutrients in food are absorbed through the gut wall and this takes time. Fibre, by speeding food through the gut faster so that less nutrients are absorbed, inhibits the absorption of iron, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, energy, proteins, fats and vitamins A, D, E and K. This happens with all types of fibre although with a normal Western-style, nutrient-rich diet, the loss caused by vegetable fibre intake is unimportant. More importantly, phytate found in cereal fibre (bran) also binds with calcium, iron and zinc making them indigestible, which in turn causes malabsorption. One study, for example, showed that subjects absorbed more iron from white bread than from wholemeal bread even though their intakes of iron were fifty percent higher with the wholemeal bread. Bran has also been shown to cause faecal losses of calcium, iron, zinc, phosphorus, nitrogen, fats, fatty acids and sterols, thus depleting the body of these materials.



just some food for thought....

I found this VERY interesting - thank you! I will keep researching :-)

Nancy