Cholesterol - Eat Orange Peels

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Hmm, how many pounds of orange peels would that take?

Also, I think they refer to the inside rind, the white stuff, long been

proven as an antioxidant and the flavanoids do a great job opening

capillaries.

I would be leery to eat the outside rind, it's chockfull of chemicals,

pesticides, herbicides, waxes. I don't even use the grated rind for

baking, just from certified organic citrus.

C-M

 

 

 

 

 

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Startling Benefit of Citrus Peels

 

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Orange and tangerine peels may be better than drugs for lowering

cholesterol--with zero side effects.

 

The magic ingredients that lower " bad " LDL cholesterol by as much as 32

to 40 percent--the same as expensive prescription medication--are

compounds known as polymethoxylated flavones (PMFs), reports Science

Daily of an international research study conducted in the United States

and Canada. Best of all, supplements made from orange and tangerine

peels have none of the potentially debilitating side effects of liver

disease and muscle weakness so common with the popular

cholesterol-lowering prescription drugs.

 

The researchers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and KGK

Synergize, a Canadian nutraceutical company, isolated the PMF compounds

from the orange and tangerine peels and gave them to hamsters with

diet-induced high cholesterol. The hamsters' cholesterol was lowered as

much as 40 percent. There was no effect on " good " HDL cholesterol. A

long-term human study is currently in progress.

 

Why do PMFs lower cholesterol? The researchers suspect, based on early

results in cell and animal studies, that it works by inhibiting the

synthesis of cholesterol and triglycerides inside the liver. The study

is the first to show that PMFs can lower cholesterol, the researchers

say. " We believe that PMFs have the potential to rival and even beat the

cholesterol-lowering effect of some prescription drugs, without the risk

of side effects, " Elzbieta Kurowska, Ph.D., lead investigator of the

study and vice president of research at KGK Synergize in Ontario,

Canada, told Science Daily.

 

PMFs are similar to other plant pigments found in citrus fruits and have

been shown to protect against cancer, heart disease, and inflammation.

Unfortunately, it would take about 20 or more cups of orange juice each

day to lower cholesterol this way; however, KGK Synergize has recently

developed a nutrition supplement containing PMFs with a form of vitamin

E that seems to enhance the compounds' effect. It is marketed as a

cholesterol-lowering agent under the trade name Sytrinol; the supplement

recently became available in the United States.

 

The research findings were published in the Journal of Agricultural and

Food Chemistry, a peer-reviewed publication of the American Chemical

Society, the world's largest scientific society.