“Good” cholesterol cleans the walls of blood vessels from plaque and transfers “bad” cholesterol to the liver, where it is processed. There are different ways to increase “good” cholesterol. One of the most harmless and beneficial for health is physical activity, Deputy Director General of Research and Preventive Cardiology of the Federal State Budgetary Institution Professor AI EI Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation Nana Pogosova Chazov.
Another mechanism for increasing the level of “good” cholesterol is adherence to a special diet, which is often called “Mediterranean”. I’m not talking about diet, nutrition. If you regularly consume a lot of vegetables, fruits, fiber and olive oil, in general, foods containing a lot of omega-3, omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids, then your “good” cholesterol will rise, and at the same time, Pogosova noted, “bad” cholesterol will fall.
According to the cardiologist, it is not worth giving up fat completely in the food you eat.
The idea of “let’s cut fat completely” is extremely harmful. Fat is the best source of energy and cholesterol is a building material for body cells, for the synthesis of vitamin D in the body and for many hormones. Cholesterol in the body is produced in the liver and circulates throughout the body in the form of such fat and protein complexes in the blood. High-density cholesterol is a vascular cleanser,” said Pogosova.
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