Kompas.com – When fasting, we should keep your diet to stay healthy.
Although not eating from the dawn call to evening to sunset, food intake at dawn and breaking the fast, and at night, still must be considered.
If it does not regulate eating patterns and types of food when fasting, it could be that the body’s cholesterol levels actually rise.
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Yet if the body’s cholesterol is too high, it is at risk of causing dangerous diseases, such as the heart and stroke.
How to reduce body cholesterol levels
So that the body’s cholesterol levels are reduced, see the way it has Kompas.com summarize the following:
- Reducing the consumption of saturated and trans fats: Limit the consumption of red meat, butter, coconut oil, fast food, and processed foods.
- Avoiding processed foods and processed carbohydrates: Reduce the consumption of cakes, white bread, instant noodles, and foods made from processed flour.
- Choosing healthy fats: Consumption of unsaturated fats from fatty fish, nuts, seeds, and olive oil.
- Increase consumption of vegetable foods: multiply vegetables, nuts, and seeds.
- Consumption of high fiber foods: soluble fiber in wheat and flaxseeds can help the body reduce excessive cholesterol levels.
- Eating sterol and stanol -rich foods: Avocados and several other vegetable products can help inhibit the absorption of cholesterol in the intestine.
- Exercise regularly: Physical activity can help increase good cholesterol levels (HDL) in the body. When fasting, you can take a leisurely walk in the afternoon ahead of breaking the fast.
- Stopping smoking and excessive alcohol consumption: Stopping this habit can increase the balance of cholesterol levels.
- Maintaining ideal body weight: adjusting weight with height, age, and sex can help manage cholesterol levels.
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