I know it's January, and it's cold outside. 

And maybe your usual triggers to get you started on healthy things aren't there right now.

After all:

🥂 It's not New Year any more.

🌻 There's no bright warm spring days luring you outside.

🥗 And it's not the season where fresh fruits and salads are particularly appealing.

A cup of hot chocolate by the fire sounds rather lovely just now though, right?

But there are some things you can do to boost your health, reduce your cholesterol, and support your metabolism even in these cosy dark days of winter.

Because let's face it.

Your health is with you all year around.

And things like cholesterol don't go away just because the sun isn't shining.

So what to do about it?

Well my tip for you today involves knowing a bit about how the body processes cholesterol.

You see-

▶ Your body uses LDL cholesterol to line your blood vessels, to protect against damage caused by inflammation.

▶ And to stop the LDL lining from staying around too long, your liver sends out HDL cholesterol to mop it all up again once it's done it's job.

▶ The liver then chucks out the used cholesterol into the bowel, where it gets ready to exit your body (that's right, it goes out in your poo).

And if everything's running normally, that's where the story ends.

But to make this cholesterol clearance system run smoothly, you need plenty of fibre passing through your bowel.

Without it, your body may reabsorb the cholesterol, raising your blood cholesterol up to potentially harmful levels.

So fibre then - lots of brown bread and weetabix?

Well no, actually. Those are both foods that are medium-high on the glycemic index.

That means they'll send your blood glucose levels up, and that can cause the kind of inflammation that leads to extra cholesterol being deposited.

So where else can you get fibre from?

My best recommendations are:

🍆 Vegetables

🥜 Nuts and seeds

🥣 Beans

Oh, and because these are all packed with fibre, they should help to keep your bowels moving nicely too.

Happy fibre-ing

Suzanne

P.S. If you want to tackle your blood sugar levels to reduce inflammation, lower cholesterol and lose weight, check out my Metabolic Food Solution programme.