Does vegetarian foods help you to lower cholesterol ?

Answer 1

No.Cholesterol is not a deadly poison, but a substance vital to the cells of all mammals. A high cholesterol level is not dangerous by itself, but may reflect an unhealthy condition, or it may be totally innocent.
Your body produces three to four times more cholesterol than you eat. The production of cholesterol increases when you eat little cholesterol and decreases when you eat much. This is because your body regulates itself, and tries to keep cholesterol at a reasonable level. High cholesterol levels are thus caused someone dealing with cholesterol poorly, not diet. Hence a very idle person on an unhealthy diet can have low cholesterol, and vice versa. For these reasons a diet with no cholesterol does not lower blood cholesterol levels, and the 'vegetarianism doesn't add to it' argument is flagrantly illogical.

In fact, cholesterol isn't a bad thing to have in your blood, to have no cholesterol would be just as bad as having too much (more so, in fact, because you'd die straight away). The link between coronary diseases and cholesterol is not direct at all. It is just as possible to get heart disease with low cholesterol as with high, in fact the difference in likelihood is negligible.

Answer 2

Vegetarian foods don't add to cholestrol, so by eating them you avoid adding cholesterol to you system. An interesting exception is eggs. Eggs are packed with cholesterol, but if you eat a lot of them they lower the cholesterol in you body to a negligable level.

Answer 3

Vegetarian foods generally do not lower your cholestorol, however, none of them add to it. Eating vegetarian foods that help to lower your cholesterol as well as other vegetarian foods will help you if that is what you want. Soy products are examples of foods that do not increase or decrease your cholestorol; Kashi and Cheerios cereals decrease it. Just don't prepare your foods in butter or eggs!

Answer 4

Eat less dairy products. That's where the excess cholesterol is coming from. Your liver will produce very small amounts of cholesterol, but these aren't the problem. You need to just cut back on cheese and dairy products. Eat more avocadoes and olive oil. These will help reduce your cholesterol.

Answer 5

Vegan foods do because only animal products contain cholesterol,even an egg can raise your cholestorel by ten points

Answer 6

Soy products do lower cholesterol

Answer 7

I would say yes as long as you don't fry them in butter or eggs or something.

Answer 8

Yes. But only fi you also eliminate the high fat snacks and junk food.

Answer 9

I have no clue,But i know greens sure make you use the restroom alot..

Answer 10

It depends on how you prepare it