{"id":1077,"date":"2011-04-29T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/blog\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2011-10-27T17:55:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T21:55:34","slug":"apples-more-effective-than-statins-for-combating-cholesterol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/04\/29\/apples-more-effective-than-statins-for-combating-cholesterol\/","title":{"rendered":"Apples More Effective than Statins For Combating Cholesterol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3603\" title=\"apple cholesterol\" src=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/apple-cholesterol-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/apple-cholesterol-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/apple-cholesterol-60x60.jpg 60w, https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/apple-cholesterol.jpg 345w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>An apple a day may keep the cardiologist away, according to a research study conducted by Florida State University Scientists. In this USDA-funded study, a group of women were asked to eat 75 g of dried apples per day. At the end of the 6-month follow up period, the apples dropped \u201cbad\u201d LDL cholesterol by 23% &#8211;comparable to cholesterol-lowering prescription medications like Lipitor.<\/p>\n<p>The apple\u2019s benefits went further than a simple reduction in cholesterol. Serial apple eaters found themselves with significantly lower levels of the pro-inflammatory protein CRP. The researchers state that the soluble fiber in the apples were likely responsible for the dramatic drop in bad cholesterol. Apples are also an abundant source of antioxidants, which also likely contributed to the reduction in inflammation that the subject\u2019s experienced.<\/p>\n<p>Despite contributing an estimated 250 calories to the subject\u2019s diet, the apples didn\u2019t add to the volunteer\u2019s waistline. In fact, each apple-eater lost an average of 3 pounds \u2013even though they didn\u2019t purposefully cut calories.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/cholesterol\/\">Learn more \u201ctricks\u201d to fight cholesterol in a flash&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An apple a day may keep the cardiologist away, according to a research study conducted by Florida State University Scientists. In this USDA-funded study, a group of women were asked to eat 75 g of dried apples per day. At the end of the 6-month follow up period, the apples dropped \u201cbad\u201d LDL cholesterol by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-cholesterol"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}