cholesterol reducing margarine

You need to be brought up to date: only oxidized cholesterol is
dangerous. Lowering your cholesterol raises your risk of cancer and
other "diseases." Thus, what you really want to do is to make sure you
don't eat oxidized cholesterol and also that you don't eat foods that
act as oxidizing agents once inside your body. The worst thing for
most people is called lipid peroxidation (fats going rancid), and if
you avoid any major source of unsaturated fatty acids, you prevent this
to a very large degree. You can also eat berries, dark chocolate, and
other common foods that are high in antioxidants (but do not eat a lot
of beans, whole grains, and leafy greens, which have anti-nutritive
qualities). You can search this group for montygram and read some of
my older posts, which go into more detail

Ellen said:

Has anyone proven the new cholesterol reducing margarines like logicol
to effectively reduce your cholesterol level?

I don't know about logicol, but studies on some others (Benecol IIRC)
found that they do improve cholesterol levels. But they are a very
expensive means of doing so.

Ellen wrote:
: Has anyone proven the new cholesterol reducing margarines like logicol
: to effectively reduce your cholesterol level?

In think that the best results can be achieved by combining several ways to
reduce cholesterol. In the Portfolio diet, developed byt the Toronto
University, they have combined almonds, soy products, soluble fiber, and
cholesterol reducing plant stanol margarines. In studies this Portfolio diet
has been equal with cholesterol lowering statin drugs in reducing
cholesterol.

More about the Portfolio diet:
http://www.portfolioeatingplan.com/

--
Juhana

"Juhana Harju" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Ellen wrote:
: Has anyone proven the new cholesterol reducing margarines like logicol
: to effectively reduce your cholesterol level?

In think that the best results can be achieved by combining several ways
to
reduce cholesterol. In the Portfolio diet, developed byt the Toronto
University, they have combined almonds, soy products, soluble fiber, and
cholesterol reducing plant stanol margarines. In studies this Portfolio
diet
has been equal with cholesterol lowering statin drugs in reducing
cholesterol.

My mouth is watering already!

What ever happened to good ol' grass-fed butter? High in omega 3,
loaded with the type of cholesterol that is beneficial to the digestive
system (the non-oxidized type) and even has the Wulzen and X factors
not found in grain fed dairy or any margarine.

Sure it's hard to find, but it's worth the extra pain if you eat a lot
of butter.

Max.

Joe the Aroma wrote:
: "Juhana Harju" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
: news:[email hidden]...
:: Ellen wrote:
::: Has anyone proven the new cholesterol reducing margarines like
::: logicol to effectively reduce your cholesterol level?
::
:: In think that the best results can be achieved by combining several
:: ways to
:: reduce cholesterol. In the Portfolio diet, developed byt the Toronto
:: University, they have combined almonds, soy products, soluble fiber,
:: and cholesterol reducing plant stanol margarines. In studies this
:: Portfolio diet has been equal with cholesterol lowering statin
:: drugs in reducing cholesterol.
:
: My mouth is watering already!

So is mine. :-p It is just lack of imagination and skill if you are not able
to make delicious meals including those ingredients.

--
Juhana

Juhana Harju said:

Joe the Aroma wrote:
: "Juhana Harju" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
: news:[email hidden]...
:: Ellen wrote:
::: Has anyone proven the new cholesterol reducing margarines like
::: logicol to effectively reduce your cholesterol level?
::
:: In think that the best results can be achieved by combining several
:: ways to
:: reduce cholesterol. In the Portfolio diet, developed byt the Toronto
:: University, they have combined almonds, soy products, soluble fiber,
:: and cholesterol reducing plant stanol margarines. In studies this
:: Portfolio diet has been equal with cholesterol lowering statin
:: drugs in reducing cholesterol.
:
: My mouth is watering already!

So is mine. :-p It is just lack of imagination and skill if you are not able
to make delicious meals including those ingredients.

--
Juhana

Why bother? Real food is easier to prepare and much much healthier.
Good healthy animal fats makes food soooooo tasty and healthy. Pork fat
rules. And it is low carb. And will control cholesterol levels. Real
food = real health.

TC

On 22 Mar 2006 20:23:32 -0800, "montygram" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

You need to be brought up to date: only oxidized cholesterol is
dangerous. Lowering your cholesterol raises your risk of cancer and
other "diseases." Thus, what you really want to do is to make sure you
don't eat oxidized cholesterol and also that you don't eat foods that

Very low cholesterol is rather a sign that cells use cholesterol for
new cell synthesis faster than liver can provide it, not being a
reason for the high cell division speed.
Low cholesterol feed from liver would rather slow down cell division
since all new cells do need cholesterol for stiffening the cell walls,
like carbon function in iron to make steel, not soft carbon free iron
or too rich in carbon.

On 22 Mar 2006 18:50:58 -0800, "Ellen" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Has anyone proven the new cholesterol reducing margarines like logicol
to effectively reduce your cholesterol level?

But most likely, drinking lot of squalene in form of olive oil might
perhaps not be a very good idea to combine with such remedies. Even
more if you eat statins. Squalene is a key intermediate in forming
cholesterol, and thus bypassing the step blocked by statins.

Juhana Harju said:

So is mine. :-p It is just lack of imagination and skill if you are not able
to make delicious meals including those ingredients.

Using no butter nor margarine at all at the bread combined with
cholesterol lowering LEAR rape seed oil has lowered my cholesterol
from 5.1 to 4.1 :-) (So no I should not go lower)

Alf Christophersen wrote:
: On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 20:53:30 +0200, "Juhana Harju"
: <[email hidden]> wrote:
:
:: So is mine. :-p It is just lack of imagination and skill if you are
:: not able to make delicious meals including those ingredients.
:
: Using no butter nor margarine at all at the bread combined with
: cholesterol lowering LEAR rape seed oil has lowered my cholesterol
: from 5.1 to 4.1 :-) (So no I should not go lower)

I have made an almost similar choice. :-) For many years I have not used
butter nor margarine but extra virgin oils (extra virgin olive oil and LEAR
cold pressed rape seed oil). My total cholesterol is also 4 and I am not
aiming lower.

--
Juhana