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Hello, my name is Dr. Susan Jewell and on behalf of Expert Village today I'm going to
talk to you about cholesterol and in particular we are going to look at ways to reduce the
amount of cholesterol that you are going to take into your body. Now here in this clip
we are going to talk about certain ways of eating. In particular the kind of butter of
margarine that you use in your body. Now it's actually better to use margarine than butter
because margarine has less polysaturated oils in it and most margarine are made from plant
sterols and plant sterols help absorb the LDL molecules from the body so you have less
deposited into your arteries and I also recommend that you actually go into your supermarket
and really look for the health because there are so many brands of margarine that you can
buy. Here I'm showing you two brands and this one is margarine that contains calcium. So
actually that's a benefit that now they're adding these extra minerals and vitamins into
the margarine itself to make it healthier. However, I still think that you should really
research and really buy brands that are even more smarter. Like for example here this is
called the Smart Balance because it has less polysaturated fats in it and also it's just
a lot more healthier it has all the extra ingredients like minerals, calcium and less
salt. And so these are like for people who specifically have to be very careful on their
diets if they have certain diseases and or so if they have very high cholesterol level.
It's better to switch to a better brand of margarine. So go and do your research in the
supermarkets and really find out you know one that you think is one that you can actually
be happy with because obviously the taste factor is one the prime concerns when people
pick whichever product. And now a days they make these very healthy brands a little bit
more tastier. So that's my recommendation about how to pick smartly when it comes to
eating margarine.