High cholesterol levels leads to various kinds of heart diseases and it’s an important thing to keep low at any cost. Although it causes various health problems, the research says that the level of cholesterol can be controlled through consuming a number of healthy foods.

Here are the 5 top foods through which you can control your cholesterol levels.

5. Avocados
It consists huge amounts of good fats such as oleic acid, healthy monounsaturated fat and fiber that helps in boosting the good cholesterol and lower down the bad. It’s good to add avocados in your salads a lot or make a nice avocado dip.

4. Brown Rice
White or polished rice does not contain the fiber or the various nutrient contents which is present in the brown rice as it’s not refined. These nutrients such as Vitamin B, selenium, magnesium and phytonutrients. It also contains 14% of daily recommended fiber. All these nutrients helps in lowering the the proportion of sugar in blood and cholesterol.

3. Celery
Through preventing oxidization of bad LDL cholesterol and lowering the risk of heart disease due to the antioxidants content present in it, celery helps in lowering the level of cholesterol in your body. Using it in your salads, vegetable juice, stir fry, salads and soups.

4. Fruits
Fruits such as pear, apples, oranges, berries, grapefruit and pomegranate have shown to reduce cholesterol levels in the blood due the high amounts of fiber. To get benefited more, try to eat food with its skin whenever possible as the skin is an additional source of fiber.

5. Vegetables
Okra (Ladies finger) and Egg plant (Brinjal) helps in lowering cholesterol levels due to the soluble fiber present in these vegetables. Always remember, avoid to cook them in too much oil as it loses its nutritive properties. Adding it in your diet with precautions will definitely help in controlling cholesterol levels.

By Prajakt K.