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Low-density lipoprotein – “bad” cholesterol – is what can build up on the walls of your blood vessels and over time this causes the insides of the vessels to narrow.
In comparison, high-density lipoprotein – “good” cholesterol works to reduce cholesterol levels by absorbing it and carrying it back to the liver. The liver then removes it from the body.
Supporting Mr Batt’s claim, a study published in the Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases journal in 2015, found that people who ate three grams of beta-glucans a day had a low-density lipoprotein reduction of eight milligrams per decilitre.
It concludes: “Our meta-analysis showed that beta-glucan consumption significantly decreased total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations but did not affect triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and glucose concentrations in hypercholesterolemic subjects.”
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