[AGL] Fw: Got cholesterol?

[Frances Morey]

"...that the judicious addition of beta-sitosterol or beta- sitosteryl oleate to meals containing cholesterol-rich foods will result in a significant decrease in cholesterol absorption, with a consequent decrease in plasma cholesterol...."
   
  Ewie,
  What gets me about articles like this is that there is no mention made of which foods in the produce department has this beta-sitosteryl, or whether it is something that can be bought as a food supplement. I am taking Pravacol and it definitely put my numbers within the normal range but I would welcome something that can be used to balance cholesterol rich meals, like shrimp, for example.
  One dentist friend told me that the figures establishing the parameters for the dangers of high chlosterol had been changed to enlarge the market base for the statins and had thereby greatly increased the population demographic to increase the demand for them.
  FM
  


Bill Irwin <billi at aloha.net> wrote:
           
  Recently I have been doing a little research on some alternative medicines.  Those are medicines made in nature rather than a chemical factory.  You won't find them advertised on TV as there isn't that much profit in them.  One of the medicines I was looking at is beta sitosterol.  It occurs in all vegetables and is especially rich in brown rice.  Vegetarians have almost twice the daily intake as the average American diet.  In medicinal forms it has been used to treat BPH (Big Prostate Hell) and high cholesterol.  It also seems to offer value in preventing colon tumors (if only Clark had discovered this 10 years ago).  
   
  I am sending this along because several of you have indicated that you are taking medications for high cholesterol.  I was also wondering if anybody has had experience with taking beta sitosterol.
  Aloha,
  Ewie
   
  PS - Now pay attention Katfish.
    Optimizing the effect of plant sterols on cholesterol absorption in man  FH Mattson, SM Grundy and JR Crouse 
  During three experimental periods, nine adults were hospitalized on a metabolic ward and fed a meal containing 500 mg of cholesterol as a component of scrambled eggs. In addition, the meal contained: 1) no additive, 2) 1 g beta-sitosterol, or 3) 2 g beta-sitosteryl oleate. Stools for the succeeding 5 days were analyzed to determine the percentage of the cholesterol in the test meal that was absorbed. The addition of beta-sitosterol resulted in a 42% decrease in cholesterol absorption; the beta-sitosteryl oleate caused a 33% reduction. These results indicate that the judicious addition of beta-sitosterol or beta- sitosteryl oleate to meals containing cholesterol-rich foods will result in a significant decrease in cholesterol absorption, with a consequent decrease in plasma cholesterol. 
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/35/4/697
   
  Note on looking up information on beta sitosterol and other subjects:  You can look up information on Goggle and will get back tons of sites but most of them are from people selling these things but they still have some good info.  Better to use http://scholar.google.com/  and you will get back abstracts and articles from the medical and research mags.  Lots of big words but nobody selling merchandise.


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