as you know February is American Heart
Month and did you know that heart
disease is the leading cause of death in
the United States it claims the lives of
600,000 Americans every year nearly 25
percent of the deaths in the country
overall so over the next few days joy is
going to share foods that will help you
with your heart health and this morning
five foods that are going to lower your
cholesterol hey joy good morning good
morning when you think of the numbers
which are pretty shocking more than 70
million American adults have too much of
that bad kind of cholesterol in them
rights right so if you can imagine
cholesterol is a waxy like substance and
it’s produced by our liver and really we
need some cholesterol some is good and
what if our bodies to thrive but when we
eat a junky diet a diet that is super
high in saturated fat trans fat and
sugar right it then prompts our liver to
make way too much cholesterol and then
let me show you what happens then so
then that cholesterol travels throughout
the body it goes throughout the body it
picks up all sorts of inflammatory
substances and it dumps itself into the
artery walls as plaque so look at all
this plaque yellow buildup if you have
an artery that looks like this
throughout your body or artery is plural
that looks like this you are at high
risk for heart attack and stroke okay
let’s move on to some foods that are
going to help us so this is the good
news there’s a lot of foods that can
help you lower your numbers we’re gonna
go through five of them apples are up
first
apples are a nutritious a nutrition
powerhouse when it comes to lowering
your cholesterol because they contain a
carbohydrate called pectin and the
pectin is hidden and buried with within
the skin other fruits like bananas and
melons they have kept them within their
skin too but we don’t eat the skin and
that’s why apples have an advantage and
this pectin latches onto cholesterol and
helps to flush it out of your day so
important do not peel your apples before
you eat them and look at this for Super
Bowl what do you think Apple nachos we
got some baked apples as well the guys
are saying no but it may say yeah
delicious right another suit good food
here at lentils yes yes so lentils
definitely deserve some love they’ve got
two reasons why they help to lower
cholesterol
first they are brimming with fiber one
cup of cooked lentils has 16 grams of
fiber Jota that’s minute same amount and
again fiber helps to mal absorb and push
let’s roll out the other thing to think
about is because it’s so rich in protein
when you serve up lentils like a lentil
soup where these are lentil sloppy joes
you’re displacing a fatty beef at that
meal that has a lot of saturated fat so
this is a win-win for your arteries love
my guacamole love avocados but everyone
says they’re high in a lot of things
that maybe aren’t great for you but it’s
the good kind of fat yeah so their
caloric so you have to watch the amount
but these things not only do they taste
good they have medicinal effects and
they can lower cholesterol first it’s
the fiber thing again but they also have
monounsaturated heart-healthy fat one
particular called beta sit testosterone
and that helps to increase the good
cholesterol and to lower the bad
cholesterol so I love these avocado to
shrink and look how cute your toes tons
of talking for the last two but oh no so
great because it has a fermented soluble
fiber called beta glucan and that also
helps to form a gel like a cholesterol
magnet and flushes it out of your system
you can end both taste this this is a
smoothie raw oats I put right in it’s on
the website isn’t that delicious things
like bananas too there’s banana in it
there’s strawberries in it you can also
make oat flour by just pulsing oats this
is an overnight chocolate banana finally
chia seeds must be is everywhere you
trician sprinkles literally they
increase the health quotient of anything
that you put them on and they don’t have
a taste so people can’t not like them so
you can put them in a smoothie if you
want or this is a lemon vinaigrette and
the cool thing about chia seeds again it
has that soluble fiber but they also
have omega-3 fats which not only drive
down cholesterol