My cholesterol level is high. Can I eat banana? Please suggest me.

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Mr. Lybrate-user, as you have stated these are called" lifestyle" diseases, meaning if we adapt a more positive and healthy lifestyle, these can be prevented. A healthy lifestyle means: exercising regularly, (everyday of the week, at least 1 hour), maintaining near normal weight, maintaining a bmi of 23 kgs/m2, refraining from alcohol, smoking, high fat foods, bakery items, pastries, aerated sweetened drinks, red meat, egg yolk etc. Also controlling excess salt intake. This kind of lifestyle is helpful in keeping those conditions mentioned by you.

Prabhakar Laxman Jathar · Accepted Answer

Mr. Lybrate-user, as you have stated these are called" lifestyle" diseases, meaning if we adapt a more positive and healthy lifestyle, these can be prevented. A healthy lifestyle means: exercising regularly, (everyday of the week, at least 1 hour), maintaining near normal weight, maintaining a bmi of 23 kgs/m2, refraining from alcohol, smoking, high fat foods, bakery items, pastries, aerated sweetened drinks, red meat, egg yolk etc. Also controlling excess salt intake. This kind of lifestyle is helpful in keeping those conditions mentioned by you.

Rahul Gupta · Answer

Hello-6 dietary and lifestyle tips to lower cholesterol levels-

1. Limit your intake of foods full of saturated fats, trans fats, and dietary cholesterol. Best choice: omega-3-rich fish, such as salmon, sardines, herring, mackerel, and trout. Choose at least 2 times weekly. If you're using canned fish, such as canned sardines, select very-low-sodium or no-salt-added varieties. Good choice: most other fish, plus shelled mollusks (clams, oysters, mussels, scallops.

Satisfactory choices: crustaceans (shrimp, crab, lobster, crawfish), poultry (white meat, skinless) game meat (bison, venison, elk, ostrich), optimally free-range and grass-fed. Poor choice: red meat (beef, pork, lamb, veal, goat). For all red meat choices, select cuts that are under 30% fat.

2. Eat a lot more fiber-rich foods (especially soluble fiber from foods like beans, oats, barley, fruits, and vegetables.

3. Choose protein-rich plant foods (such as legumes or beans, nuts, and seeds) over meat.

4. Lose as much excess weight as possible.

5. Take plant sterol supplements.

6. Take ayurveda medicines like arogyawardhini vati, liporid etc. For quick results.