Want to Benefit from Plant Sterols? Eat Whole Food or Take Supplements With Meals. Plus: Do You "Benefit" at All?
This is not a joke by a blogger this is how Unilever advocates to use their Flora pro.active product to consumers, who "want to lower your cholesterol and follow a healthy diet and lifestyle." Pharma companies and supplement producers are notorious for picking foods apart and providing you with concentrated extracts of the "active ingredients". Aside from the fact that more often then not, the activity of those "active ingredients" is critically dependent on co-factors that are lost during the isolation and extraction processes, scientists from the Division of Gastroenterology-Hepatology at the Department of Internal Medicine of the Maastricht University Medical Center have now been able to show that the mere presence of the bulk in which plant sterols would come in the natural form is critically important to their effects. Can you achieve a "healthily"(?) low cholesterol level by guzzling tuckloads of low-fat yogurt drinks!? Based o...
