Prevent Heart and Liver Damage by Eating This Raw

It’s no secret that many of us love high cholesterol foods: fatty meat, rich cheeses and creamy sauces all come to mind. But most of us are also aware of the dangers of boosting our LDL cholesterol too much: we up our risk for heart disease.

Now here’s an interesting study you might be glad to hear about. Israeli researchers have found a way to make a diet high in cholesterol less threatening to your health.

They conducted an animal study in which they compared the liver and aorta changes in rats fed cholesterol-containing diets. Then they looked for possible improvements when the cholesterol diets were supplemented with raw vegetables.

The researchers took careful measurements of the phenolic compounds of three vegetables in particular: garlic; white onion; and red onions. They checked these vegetables for polyphenols, flavonoids, quercetin, flavanols, tannins, and ascorbic acid. They found good evidence for the phenolic contents and the radical-scavenging capacities of the three vegetables.

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