Hyperlipidemia is the enemy of human health. Lowering blood lipids has become a topic of greatest concern to everyone. In particular, patients with high blood pressure deserve to be highly vigilant. Below I will teach you a simple and effective method to lower blood lipids. I hope it will be helpful to everyone.

Eating more foods containing dietary fiber is a simple and effective way to lower blood lipids.

Why can dietary fiber foods lower blood lipids? First of all, dietary fiber refers to sugars and lignin that cannot be utilized in the diet. It includes cellulose, hemicellulose (or non-cellulosic polysaccharides), lignin, pectin, algin, gum, agar, etc.

Secondly, although dietary fiber cannot be digested, absorbed and utilized by the human body, it is an important component of the diet and is necessary for human health.

Dietary fiber is divided into two categories: soluble and insoluble dietary fiber. Due to different types, their physical properties are different, and their functions in the human body are also different. These properties include hydrophilicity, viscosity, glycolysis, digestive enzyme inhibition, bile acid binding and ion exchange, etc.

Soluble dietary fiber: It has strong water absorption. When it enters the human intestine, it will swell when exposed to water, increase the volume of feces, and promote the excretion of cholesterol from the feces; it can also be combined with bile acid or other lipids It binds to cholesterol, reduces cholesterol absorption and lipoprotein synthesis, thereby accelerating the excretion of low-density protein cholesterol.

Insoluble dietary fiber: Although it is hardly digested and absorbed in the intestine, it can form an insoluble complex, namely lignocellulose, so it can also affect the absorption of cholesterol and accelerate its excretion.

Therefore, both soluble dietary fiber and insoluble dietary fiber have the effect of regulating blood lipids. The difference is that soluble dietary fiber has a stronger lipid-lowering effect than insoluble dietary fiber. After the human body consumes water-soluble dietary fiber, it can generally reduce total plasma cholesterol. Most reports can reduce total cholesterol by 5% to 10%, and some reports can even reduce it by 25%. Almost all the types of cholesterol reduced are harmful to the cardiovascular system. The role of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol.

Someone once conducted a study and observation on 43 patients with hyperlipidemia. After these patients were treated with a lipid-lowering diet for 2 months, they were given soluble and insoluble dietary fiber for 16 weeks respectively. The results showed that the control group The average reduction rates of serum total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol were 4.9% and 48% respectively. The lipid-lowering effect was most significant in the 4th week, and the reduction of serum total cholesterol in men was more significant than that in women.

Research observations show that even if the serum total cholesterol level has dropped to normal, soluble dietary fiber still has a significant effect on reducing serum total cholesterol.

In summary, dietary fiber has a good blood-lipid-lowering effect. Therefore, normal people often eat foods rich in dietary fiber, which is beneficial to preventing the occurrence of hyperlipidemia. Patients with hyperlipidemia should eat more foods rich in dietary fiber, which not only helps prevent and treat hyperlipidemia, but also prevents the occurrence and development of atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease.

Foods rich in dietary fiber include: bamboo shoots, sweet potatoes, purple potatoes, celery, eggplant, burdock, figs, green leafy vegetables, beans, young corn, pineapple, peanuts, walnuts, spinach, garlic sprouts, potatoes, Pumpkins, carrots, sweet potatoes, mushrooms, kelp, etc.