{"id":30209,"date":"2025-03-13T13:30:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T17:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=30209"},"modified":"2025-03-13T02:08:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T06:08:30","slug":"a-simple-food-swap-drops-cholesterol-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2025\/03\/13\/a-simple-food-swap-drops-cholesterol-12\/","title":{"rendered":"A Simple Food Swap Drops Cholesterol 12%"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ALowering cholesterol doesn\u2019t have to mean cutting out your favorite foods or eating bland meals.<\/p>\n

One ridiculously easy food swap drops your LDL (bad) cholesterol by 12% in just weeks\u2014without changing anything else.<\/p>\n

Plus, it tastes amazing.<\/p>\n

This is according to a new study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.<\/p>\n

Researchers at the University of Granada analyzed seven clinical trials with 369 adults between the ages of 24 and 61.<\/p>\n

Everyone kept eating normally \u2014 except for one small change.<\/p>\n

Instead of regular meat, they swapped it for a plant-based alternative. These foods are made from fungi (like Quorn), legumes, or veggies but are designed to taste like the real thing.<\/p>\n

The results were impressive.<\/p>\n

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\n•\tLDL (bad) cholesterol dropped by 12 percent.
\n•\tTotal cholesterol fell by 6 percent.
\n•\tPeople even lost a little weight\u2014about 1 percent\u2014without eating fewer calories.\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

And if you\u2019re wondering which option worked best, the fungi-based ones like Quorn seemed to have the biggest impact.<\/p>\n

If you like plant-based meat, this is an easy, painless way to lower cholesterol.<\/p>\n

But if plant-based meat is not your thing, there\u2019s another sneaky ingredient that\u2019s wrecking your cholesterol. And you\u2019re probably unaware that you\u2019re eating it.<\/p>\n

Thousands of readers have completely fixed their cholesterol just by cutting this one hidden ingredient explained here…<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lowering cholesterol doesn\u2019t have to mean cutting out your favorite foods or eating bland meals. One ridiculously easy food swap drops your LDL (bad) cholesterol by 12% in just weeks\u2014without changing anything else. Plus, it tastes amazing. This is according to a new study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Researchers at the University […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":30305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-30209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-cholesterol"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Quorn-23156591.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30209","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30209"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30307,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30209\/revisions\/30307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}