Saturday, December 1, 2012

Healthy Snacks


You don't have much time but want to have a healthy snack ? Although busy, you can enjoy a delicious snack that helps you control the body's cholesterol levels, as follows :

  1. Skim milk and cocoa
    Research in Spain produce, volunteers who choose skim milk snack mixed with cocoa during one month decreased bad cholesterol or low density lipoprotein (LDL) up to 14 percent, while the good cholesterol or high density lipoprotein (HDL) rose 5 percent. That's because the content of polyphenol antioxidants in cocoa.


  2. Edamame
    Edamame contains soya protein. In many studies, soy protein proven to be useful to lower LDL cholesterol levels as much as 10 percent and total cholesterol up to 7 percent, if taken regularly. Steamed edamame without adding salt.

  3. Nuts
    Not only raise HDL cholesterol ratio, nuts also lower triglycerides, so good for heart health. So that was reported Archives of Internal Medicine. Eat a third of a cup of nuts every day.

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