Miracle Reds Heart Health and Plant Sterols
Are you familiar with the connection between heart health and plant sterols. You may have heard of them. You have no doubt eaten them. And if you want to lower your high cholesterol, you definitely need more of them. We’re talking about plant sterols.
Research has shown a direct line between plant sterols and lowering LDL, or “bad,” cholesterol. New studies have also indicated that increasing your intake of plant sterols may help battle three of the most common types of cancer.
Before you decide to leap aboard the plant-sterols bandwagon, though, you may have a few questions. For example, are the cholesterol claims really legitimate? Are there any negative health consequences associated with eating too many sterols?
Plant sterols are constituents of plants — plant cell walls, to be exact. Plant sterols are far from “new.” They were discovered in 1922, and since the 1950s, scientists have known that plant sterols can reduce LDL cholesterol in both animals and humans. Because plant sterols are chemically similar to cholesterol molecules, they are able to block cholesterol absorption by the intestines, thereby lowering the amount of LDL in the blood.
“There are consistent data to support a significant LDL, or ‘bad,’ cholesterol lowering of about 10 percent,” says Alice Lichtenstein, DSc, a professor of nutrition science and policy, Friedman School, Tufts University. That’s enough to lower one’s risk of heart disease by about 30 percent.
The most surprising aspect of plant-sterols’ effect on cholesterol, though, is that they seem to work on everyone, regardless of their cholesterol profile or any other factor. “In one study, we had 53 people and every one of them had some lowering,” says Judd. “You just don’t see that in experimental studies. There are almost always some people who don’t respond.”
Yet the existing research on the effects of extensively absorbed plant sterols suggests that instead of triggering health problems, they may actually generate substantial health benefits unrelated to cholesterol. Studies conducted by Atif Awad, PhD, and colleagues at the University of Buffalo, N.Y., have discovered that a diet rich in plant sterols can inhibit the development of breast, colon and prostate cancers — the three most common types in Western society. It can also reduce.
Miracle Reds provides 670mg of Plant Sterols + Widest Spectrum of Antioxidants – that’s why we call Miracle Reds your Heart Hero! Get yours today!
Sylvia Ortiz, Mother of SuperFoods