Can some one tell me how to reduce bad cholesterol Fast? Is it possible to do it in a natural way? A quick reply will be appreciated. Thanks.

First you need to watch your diet. You should eliminate from your diet those fatty foods. It is also known that Oatmeal will help reduce low-density lipoprotein (the bad cholesterol). Soluble fiber will also reduce the absorption of cholesterol in your intestines that is found in foods such as kidney beans, apples, pears, psyllium, barley and prunes.

Try lifestyle changes first and only move on to medication later. However, lifestyle changes may not be sufficient to lower your bad LDL cholesterol. Physical exercise combined with changes in diet can lower your triglycerides and raise your HDL good cholesterol. Because, exercise and dietary changes have several cardiovascular benefits which may not be reflected in a cholesterol test. Since, your real goal is to lower risk of cardiovascular disease.

What's TLC diet to lower cholesterol levels? What diet do we have to take?

rogers - 13 July 2008 02:17 AM

Try lifestyle changes first and only move on to medication later. However, lifestyle changes may not be sufficient to lower your bad LDL cholesterol. Physical exercise combined with changes in diet can lower your triglycerides and raise your HDL good cholesterol. Because, exercise and dietary changes have several cardiovascular benefits which may not be reflected in a cholesterol test. Since, your real goal is to lower risk of cardiovascular disease.

Pretty much summed up everything I was going to say....

substitute fatty butters with low cholesterol butters and things like that, it's a lifestyle change that will help you in the long term..not some fad diet, good luck it's great you're taking this step!

I hadn't heard of the TLC diet before so I googled it and apparently it stands for Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes Moderator's Note: affiliate link removed


It looks like they have an interactive tool for creating a meal plan for the day. Looks pretty interesting and easy to use.

If you try it, let us know how it works.

I paid money for that stupid fat loss for idiots diet and my daughter tried it and her sugar crashed after a couple of days and she had to quit.

It's not the cholesterol count that matters, it is the size of the particles. Small particles are bad, large particles are good. Google and you will find much more about this topic.

After I suggested it, my doctor let me get the Lipoprofile test Moderator's Note: affiliate link removed
. She was always harping about my high cholesterol and wanting to put me on statins. They are trying to put little kids on statins now, it's crazy! Show me one study that shows that statins have extended lives, I haven't found any. While they may lower some cardiovascular risks, you still die because the drugs have damaged your liver or made you more accident prone because they lowered your cholesterol too much. The main mechanism, some studies are now showing, that statins provide that reduce some cardiovascular risks is it anti-inflammation effect. The lowering of your cholesterol may have nothing to do with it! Also, all these statins (and all the other drugs people are taking) are polluting our waters even more via their urine.

Anyway, I digress, my lipoprofile blood test showed that I have zero small particles - zero! The good range allows you to have some, but I had none. I am not taking any medications other than my insulin for Type 1 diabetes. I will just continue to eat healthy and avoid transfats like the plague. Lots of raw fruits & veggies for me please.

Also, this article is fascinating (at least to me ) in that it shows the history of this anti-cholesterol eating mania - Moderator's Note: affiliate link removed
This shows that it is not the cholesterol you eat that matters, it is the oxidized cholesterol that matters.

"But what you might not know is that the beginnings of this whole cholesterol madness started back in 1913 when a Russian researcher named Nikolai Anitschkov fed cholesterol to rabbits who later developed a kind of atherosclerosis (cholesterolosis) .

Of course rabbits are vegetarian and never eat cholesterol in the wild, but that's another story. Nearly 50 years later, another researcher tried to duplicate Anitschkov's research, but he was very careful about not letting the cholesterol lie around the rabbit cages where it was exposed to air, which of course, causes it to oxidize pretty quickly.

And guess what? The rabbits didn't develop atherosclerosis."

TLC diet stands for Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes diet to lower cholesterol. The diet includes white meat, eggs without yolk, dry beans, fish, and nuts. Eat chicken and turkey without skin.

Eat fat-free food. Avoid taking or eating food that has high saturated fat contents like butter, milk, ice cream, coconut and red meat. Eat food that is rich in omega 3 fatty acids like salmon and other fishes. Exercise every day

What causes bad cholesterol?

If you go to Wikipedia and search for HDL, you will find the diet and lifestyle changes they recommend for increasing your levels of this good cholesterol. Taking this in the reverse, not doing these things help to cause bad cholesterol. So stated in that way they would be, these are some of the things that can help cause bad cholesterol:

1) don't exercise
2) smoke
3) eat transfats
4) don't eat enough soluble fiber
5) don't take an omega 3 supplement

Thanks Karrend for this interesting information about cholesterol. My father has high cholesterol reading and I want to tell him more info about his condition.

Are there another meds that can help maintain the cholesterol level?

Red Yeast Rice is a natural statin you can take, but most doctors still want to monitor your liver every few months if you take it - just like with prescription statins.

Food low in sodium and fats can avoid getting too much bad cholesterol. Pick a food that has mono saturated fat and they are good for you to avoid bad cholesterol.

As long as you avoid saturated fat and Trans fatty acid, these types of fats will gonna raise the cholesterol level. Still if you search on the internet omega 3 and 6 fatty acid are still good for lowering down cholesterol.

Personally, I believe only transfats (out of the fats) are the culprit for bad cholesterol. Saturated fat, not so much. Check out Dr. Mercola's website and search for articles about this. Apparently, in most studies in the past they lumped together trans and saturated fats as one entity when studying them. But, in the few studies, where they separated them out - the transfats were the problem.

I have read an article on the internet ssaying that saturated fat damages heavily. This is the number one cause why we have high cholesterol reading and heart conditions. In fact, trans fat is the 2nd thing that gives us high cholesterol.

Yes, many still believe this - I don't based on the studies and articles I have read. But, of course, you can overdo anything so you don't want to pig out on saturated fats.

Here is an example on an excerpt on an article about coconut oil and saturated fat on Dr. Mercola's website:

Back in the 1930's, a dentist named Dr. Weston Price traveled throughout the South Pacific, examining traditional diets and their effect on dental and overall health. He found that those eating diets high in coconut products were healthy and trim, despite the high fat concentration in their diet.

Similarly, in 1981, researchers studied populations of two Polynesian atolls. Coconut was the chief source of caloric energy in both groups. The results, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, demonstrated that both populations exhibited positive vascular health. There was no evidence that the high saturated fat intake had a harmful effect in these populations.

Another good source of articles is the Weston A Price Foundation's website.

I think coconut juice and its meat don’t have that saturated fat but when you get the milk product of coconut contains the saturated fat.

Coconut meat is very high in fat content. If by coconut juice, you mean coconut water - then yes that would be devoid of fat. But coconut milk is high in fat.

Notice both studies I mentioned said that the populations had a high fat concentration in their diet or high saturated fat intake. So they were not just drinking the coconut water. They usually cook with coconut oil.

There is a coconut research center website that is good also.