Fruit star fruit Averrhoa wuluh bilimbi L. commonly used as part of the seasoning or vegetables, also proven to reduce blood cholesterol levels. From the research proved, wuluh starfruit juice with 1 ml volume, 1.5 ml, 2 ml, and 2.5 ml orally to white rats can lower cholesterol levels in blood serum.

While at certain doses, 0.54 g/200 g BB, green tea was able to lower total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, triglycerides, and weight of white mice. But green tea does not affect HDL cholesterol levels.

Unfortunately, the optimal dose of the drug last four ingredients to lower cholesterol in humans is unknown. This is because research has not reached the application for humans. Empirical data was still missing. To use it, it needs to experiment. To be sure, all the plants were in the study did not indicate the nature of toxic (poisonous), so relatively safe to try in an effort to reduce blood cholesterol levels.

However the treatment is a good step to lower blood cholesterol levels are already high. However, prevention is better. A few simple standards to prevent hypercholesterolaemia increase levels of soluble fiber in the diet by eating fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains and seeds; choose white dishes of meat products or fish; remove chicken skin before cooking; choose lean meat and remove all fat existing, as well as being consumed in portions.

Also limit the amount of peanuts consumed; limit the use of butter, margarine, cheese, and cooking oil from coconut or palm oil, instead use sunflower oil, soybean, canola, or olive oil; choosing food products and beverages with no or low fat; and if the extra weight, you should do body weight reduction and exercise

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Glukan beta is a lot of polysaccharides contained in the oat / rice with skin (bran) and a soluble fiber that can lower “bad” cholesterol (LDL) in the body, but nature would be more efficient if consumed in beverage form.

A recent study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, reported the results of research on the influence of fruit drink fortified with beta glukan of LDL cholesterol levels
in 47 volunteers.

All of these volunteers consuming 500 ml of placebo (a fruit drink enriched with rice starch) every day for three weeks, before then randomized to either treatment or placebo using a fortified beverage glukan beta next five weeks of immersion.

The researchers reported that after five weeks, both the control group and groups receiving the treatment proved to have the amount of food intake the same, except for intake of beta glukan.

In that study, concentrations of total cholesterol decreased significantly by 0.06 mmol / L, decreased LDL cholesterol 0.062 mmol / L, and no change? Significant impact on HDL cholesterol, trigliserol, as well as the total antioxidant fat-soluble.

The mechanism of LDL cholesterol reduction by beta glukan was not too clear, but the researchers suspect that beta glukan will bind to bile acids in preventing reabsorption intestine and finally excreted. Concluded that not only increased bile acid synthesis, but the decrease in cholesterol absorption also contribute to the cholesterol-lowering effect of beta glukan.

Previous studies that also use the beta in the form glukan drinks, such as oat milk and fruit juices it gives the same result, namely lowering LDL cholesterol levels. But when the beta glukan consumed in the form of food (like bread or cookies) it gives results that are not significant. Thus, these findings indicate that the efficacy of beta glukan will increase when the material is consumed in the form of liquid products.