Drink up Your Way to Lowering Your Cholesterol!

High cholesterol and its repercussions have been a growing concern among the people that study health and nutrition around the world. After years of intense research, science has uncovered that nature provides a wide variety of options when it comes to dealing with high cholesterol, and a large portion of it comes from plant fats and oils. The best part of this is that these wonderful health aids can be taken in the form of a delicious drink! With that said, this article lists a few great juice and smoothie recipes to help lower your bad cholesterol levels. 

Tangy Tropical Smoothie

Ingredients: 

• 5 ounces of unsweetened almond milk
• 1/2 of a pear
• 1 cup of chopped pineapple
• ¼ of an avocado
• 3 cups of spinach
• ¼ of fresh ginger

This recipe is sure to get you excited about smoothies. Plus, it will give you a healthy dose of antioxidants as well. To make this, take your unsweetened almond milk, and blend it with the pear. Then, blend in the pineapple, avocado, spinach and ginger. This smoothie is full of great antibacterial agents to keep the microorganisms in your gut properly balanced and working hard to keep your body functioning at its optimum abilities.

Strawberry Lemonade Smoothie

Ingredients: 

• 8 ounces of almond milk
• 1 peeled banana
• 10 decently-sized strawberries
• ¼ of a lemon, peeled and seedless
• 2 kale leaves, without the stems
• 2 table spoons of chia seeds (soaked for 5-10 minutes)

All you need to do for this smoothie is blend up all the ingredients and you will be done in minutes. In no time, you will have a super refreshing smoothie that will give you an energy boost with some great intestine-cleaning action! 

Apple Avocado Smoothie

Ingredients:

• 8 ounces of unsweetened almond milk
• 1 apple (core removed)
• ¼ or ½ of an avocado (peeled and seed removed)
• 2 cups of spinach

Avocados are amazing because they contain the kind of plant fats that has a major positive effect on LDL cholesterol. All you need to do is mix all these ingredients. This smoothie is full of a wide range of great nutrients to help you stay energetic throughout the day. 

Apple Green Smoothie

Ingredients: 

• 4 ounces of water
• 1 peeled banana
• 1 large apple (core removed)
• ½ cucumber (with peel)
• ¼ peeled avocado (seed removed)
• 2 cups of baby spinach

If you are not a big fan of almond milk, then this recipe might be a great option for you. The cucumber can also help remove excess water from your body. Again, blend these all together and you have a healthy glass of smoothie!

Bonus: A quicker and easier way to get all the vitamins and nutrients you need to lower your cholesterol and harness many other health benefits is by drinking Nutri Noni Mix Juice from Orgaanics!