There are many things that you should store in your food storage that can help your lower your cholesterol. As you put together your food storage, you should definitely keep any health concerns such as this in mind.
When it comes to food storage, there are many things that you should consider storing that you may not have thought of. You will need to store a variety of foods so that you will not get tired of the food you have and simply stop eating rather than eating the food you have in a hard time.
The food you store will also need to be high in nutrients and vitamins so that you will not develop illnesses and problems from becoming malnourished. If you have a current healthy problem, you will also want to take that into consideration and store foods that will not complicate your health problem.
One of the health concerns that you may need to take into consideration is high cholesterol. High cholesterol, if complicated, could lead to heart disease and a variety of other problems including death.
If you have this health complication, you run the risk of having excess cholesterol build up in your blood stream until a blood vessel is clogged. The plaque that forms on the walls can also cause the arteries to become thicker, harder, and less flexible.
Overall, your blood will slow down and it will make your heart work very hard to deliver the nutrients that your body needs to various parts of your body. This condition often leads to heart attacks.
High fiber foods are particularly what you need to eat when you are suffering from high cholesterol. One of the first kinds of food you should watch out for with this condition are vegetables.
Vegetables are low in saturated fat, total fat and have no cholesterol. The more vegetables you eat and the less of other foods you eat, the lower your cholesterol will be.
The best vegetables to eat include green beans, other green and leafy vegetables, kale, onions, un-peeled potatoes, spinach, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, broccoli, celery, and so forth. Green beans can be a great addition to your food storage because they can easily be canned or purchased in canned form.
They will store for a very long time. Onions and potatoes also last a long time in your cupboard. Other things can probably also be canned.
You should also be on the look out to eat fruits if you have high cholesterol. Fruit juice does not count as fruit in this case.
Juice has all of the fiber removed. Instead eat apples, berries, citrus fruits, cranberries, grapes, and so forth.
Many of these things can be dried and stored in your food storage. Many can also be canned and will store for a very long time as well.
Legumes are another food item that are critical to a low cholesterol. Legumes are mostly known as beans and lentils.
Beans are very easy to store in your food store in bulk. They also provide your body with needed protein when meat is scarce.
Eating beans for only a couple of weeks can lower your cholesterol tremendously. Dry beans and peas are usually very high in starch and fiber.
It is recommended that those with high blood pressure should eat legumes at least three times a week. There are many ways to eat and flavor beans so that they do not become boring.
Grains are also a necessary part of the diet of one with high cholesterol. The grains that are lowest in cholesterol include bran cereals, brown rice, oats, whole wheat bread, and so forth.
These grains are also very easy to store in food store. All too often, they are really the only thing that people make their food storage of.
While storing wheat is good, you are going to need some variety. When you are storing wheat, you need to make sure that you know how to use it before you have to use it.
Otherwise, you may discover that you do not have a much needed wheat grinder or that you cannot prepare the food that you have. Powdered egg whites can also be stored in food storage.
Egg whites do not contain any cholesterol. As egg whites provide the rising capability to many recipes, two egg whites can be substituted for one egg in a recipe.
In many baked foods you cannot tell whether you used a real egg or whether you substituted using powdered egg whites. It is a great way to eliminate some of the harmful ingredients from your baking, maintain a low cholesterol, and fill out your food storage so that you can keep baking when hard times strike.
Author Resource:-
Jack R. Landry is an accomplished expert in family preparedness and has been giving seminars for over 15 years. He recommends that everyone have on hand an emergency food storage in case of any emergency or disaster.
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