Diets for Cholesterol Management

Dishing Up Nutrition

Nutritional Weight & Wellness, Inc.

Nutrition, Education, Health & Fitness:nutrition, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.3 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

One half of the adult population struggles with cardiovascular disease and today we’ll touch on how cholesterol plays a role in heart health. We’ll discuss the damaging effects of inflammation as well as cover foods that cause that harmful inflammation and the foods that reduce inflammation. We help clients maintain a normal cholesterol range by choosing the beneficial foods and by eliminating the harmful ones, so if you’re struggling in this area, tune in!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition this morning, brought to you by Nutritional Weight and Wellness.
0:05.1	We are so pleased that you joined us this morning for today's show and podcast because we have a very important topic to discuss.
0:13.4	We're going to be talking about the role cholesterol plays in heart disease.
0:18.6	You may not realize that almost half of American adults have cardiovascular disease right now.
0:25.5	Wow.
0:26.3	Half.
0:27.0	It's a lot.
0:27.5	It's a lot.
0:28.4	I believe the actual number is 48.3, if you want to split hairs.
0:33.2	But 48.3% of adults having cardiovascular disease is a big deal.
0:40.2	So heart disease is the number one cause of death in the U.S.
0:44.4	And stroke is the number fifth.
0:46.9	So, yes, heart disease is the leading cause of death.
0:50.0	It may also surprise you that cholesterol is not the leading cause of heart disease or stroke.
0:57.8	Let me say that again because everyone needs to sit down and is listening, I think.
1:02.1	Cholesterol is not the leading cause of heart disease or stroke.
1:07.5	But I think that that is the message that echoes in her brain from the past 30 years.
1:13.1	So what is the leading cause of heart disease? Let's talk about that. If cholesterol isn't the
1:19.0	villain, what is it, Brittany? That is a good question that I hope that we will be answering
1:26.2	in the next hour.
1:28.7	I'm Melanie Beasley.
1:30.7	I'm a registered and licensed dietitian.
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