04/01/2022
How to LOWER your cholesterol: Many times we hear people in the club talking about lowering their cholesterol. Well, one of the main ways you can help control your body's cholesterol level is through nutrition....specifically the amount of saturated fat intake. Your body produces about 70% of the cholesterol it needs on its own. The rest comes from what we eat which can ONLY come from animal products. When you eat saturated fat, it triggers the body to produce more cholesterol, which is part of the bile that is used to break down the saturated fat. So....when you limit the amount of saturated fat intake in your body, you can limit the additional amount of cholesterol your body has to make in order to break it down. So how much saturated fat should we be eating in 1 day??? The daily recommendation is NO MORE than 10% of your overall fat consumption for the day. It doesn't take a whole lot of saturated fat to meet that recommendation. If you look at this picture of the nutrition facts of 1 slice of aged white cheddar cheese, you can see 1 slice has 4 grams of saturated fat. Lets do some math...based on a 2000 calorie daily intake, if 30% of your food was consumed in the form of fat, that would equal 600 calories from fat. There are 9 calories per gram of fat, therefore you would be allowed 66.6 grams of fat per day, 10% of which OR 6.6 grams should be saturated fat. Therefore if you ate 1 and a half slices of this cheese, you would have met your daily limit of saturated fat! Remember, you ARE what you eat. Pay attention to nutrition labels and see if you can improve your cholesterol levels by making this small adjustment in your daily nutrition. Stay Strong Everyone! πͺπͺπͺπͺπͺ