This diet has been create by the Canadian research team (working with the Almond Board of California, Unilever Canada and Lublaw Brands). The scientists managed to prove that soy has the ability to lower cholosterol level in human body. The team chose 25 volunteers and placed them on The Portfolio Diet for ONE month lowered the LDL by 35%! The LDL is the numbers in cholesterol that increase our risk of heart disease. The HDL is the numbers that lower our risk of heart disease. It has been revealed that in the volunteers, the HDL hasn't changed and remained the same. But in the volunteers who have been followed a standard diet the LDL number fell by 12%. This diet is recommended as an especially filling diet.  The Portfolio Diet Menu:
Breakfast: oat bran, fruit, soy milk.
Lunch: vegetarian chili, oat bran bread, tomato. Dinner: vegetarian curry, soy burger, northern beans, barley, okra, eggplant, cauliflower, onions, red pepper. The volunteers also took Metamucil 3 x per day for soluble fiber from psyllium. If you study the proposed menu carefully you will see that it includes foods which are very useful for every person such as soy, plant sterols and almonds. The Portfolio diet is a low fat, vegan diet. It contains a lot of soluble fiber (oats, barley, legumes, eggplant, okra, Metamucil) and it's actually quite tasty. This diet is very tasty and effective and it has been noticed that the volunteers remained on this diet after the end of the research. If you want to lower your cholesterol levels, you should investigate this diet a bit further. It is a proven fact that some colesterol lowering pills are very effective in balancing these levels but it can be very risky to take them. Also most people have not withstood the Test of Time. The Portfolio Diet is very safe and gives you good results. A healthy heart, is a strong heart. You can make your heart stronger following this diet.
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