here are the 4 worst foods to eat according to a cardiologist

If you have good cholesterol (or HDL cholesterol) is important for health because this lipid protects against cardiovascular disease, excess cholesterol or bad LDL cholesterol is very bad for your health because it favors them. If there are drug treatments to help regulate the levels of good and bad cholesterol in the body, Doctor Elizabeth Klodasa, a cardiologist American, revealed to the magazine Make It that we can try first “to use thefood as medicine” to do it.

To achieve this, you can eat fruits good for cholesterol, those which are good for both blood sugar and cholesterol or the best vegetable to preserve your heart health, but above all you need to monitor the problem foods which cause your bad cholesterol levels to skyrocket. The doctor revealed the 4 worst foods to eat every day when you have cholesterol, those whose consumption must be limited as much as possible when we want to protect ourselves from cardiovascular diseases. Breakfast, lunch, dinner or even a snack, bad news: there is some at every meal.

Red meat

Red meat would be the worst meat to eat when you have cholesterol according to the American cardiologist who explains that it is one of the foods most often involved in patients affected by bad cholesterol. The doctor specifies that unless you completely eliminate it from your diet, you must at least reduce the portions of red meat ingested, by not eating more than “85 grams” during meals. And don’t necessarily think about compensating your red meat meals with white meat, because the cardiologist points out that it also contains saturated fats to consume in moderation when you have bad cholesterol.

Cakes

Whether it’s pastries from your favorite baker, cakes or industrial biscuits, the same fight: these sweets are very bad for your cholesterol level according to the cardiologist. In question, their richness in sugar and fats, in addition to calories. Far from being nutritionally interesting foods, all cakes and pastries are foods that should be enjoyed occasionally.

Fried foods

For the cardiologist, this is a category of foods that should clearly not be made a habit during meals because “frying foods generally increases calorie counts because saturated fat and cholesterol are absorbed from the food during the process” Cooking.

Pastries

Even if we often enjoy them for breakfast, pastries sold in bakeries (or worse, in supermarkets when they are industrial) are foods “calorie dense, nutrient poor” and that “contain high amounts of fat (especially saturated fats like butter and shortening), as well as sugar”. An ideal cocktail to promote bad cholesterol in short! You should therefore not have it every morning for breakfast or make it a regular afternoon snack.

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