MY GRATITUDE THIS THANKSGIVING FOR THE 'NUTRITION ACTION' MAGAZINE I SUBSCRIBE TO FOR A SMALL FEE AND THE HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL'S HARVARD HEALTHbeat NEWSLETTER I RECEIVE AT NO CHARGE FROM THE BOSTON-BASED HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL

 

I am very thankful this Thanksgiving Day for first-rate healthy-living advice I am receiving on a year-round basis from the "Nutrition Action" monthly magazine I pay a subscription fee for that is published by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Science in the Public Interest non-profit group, and also from Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.

Below is a nice thought for the day from Harvard Medical School's Harvard Health Publishing-produced copyright-2020 HEARTbeat e-mail newsletter that I received today from that world-famous medical school:

"...Foods high in fiber, low in saturated fat can lower cholesterol

"While saturated fat and dietary cholesterol both play a role in your cholesterol level, experts stress that the most important dietary change you can make to lower your cholesterol numbers is to adjust the overall pattern of your diet. Best is a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, fish, and whole grains. This helps in two ways.

First, the more of these healthful foods you eat, the less you generally consume of foods that are high in saturated fat and highly refined carbohydrates, which both damage the cardiovascular system.

Second, high-fiber foods help reduce your cholesterol level by making unhealthy dietary fats harder to absorb from the gut.

This doesn't work for everyone, however. For people at high risk of heart disease, dietary efforts don't come close to lowering cholesterol enough. Other people are genetically predisposed to having high blood cholesterol regardless of what they eat."