Key Points for Food Selection in Hyperlipidemia Treatment
（1）Limit staple foods. This is especially important for individuals who are overweight or obese. Avoid pure sugar foods and sweets.
（2）Consume more foods that provide high-quality protein but are low in saturated fatty acids and cholesterol, such as fish (especially marine fish), soybeans and soy products, poultry, and lean meat.
（3）Control the intake of animal livers and other organs. Strictly limit animal brains, crab roe, and fish roe.
（4）Use vegetable oil for cooking and try to minimize the intake of animal fats.
（5）Eat more vegetables, fruits, and coarse grains to ensure adequate intake of dietary fiber, vitamins, and inorganic salts. It is particularly important to consume foods rich in niacin, vitamin C, vitamin E, and vitamin B6.
（6）Many foods have been found to have a lipid-lowering effect:
① Garlic: Garlic can increase high-density lipoprotein (HDL) in the blood, which is beneficial for preventing arteriosclerosis.
② Eggplant: Decomposition products of eggplant in the intestine can bind with excess cholesterol and excrete it from the body.
③ Shitake mushrooms and wood ear mushrooms: They can lower blood cholesterol and triglycerides. According to research, their cholesterol-lowering effect is 10 times stronger than that of the lipid-lowering drug clofibrate.
④ Onions and kelp: Onions can reduce lipid deposition in arteries; the iodine and magnesium in kelp also play a certain role in preventing lipid deposition in arteries.
⑤ Soybeans: Researchers have found that eating 115 grams of beans daily can lower blood cholesterol by 20%, especially the low-density lipoprotein (LDL) associated with atherosclerosis.
⑥ Tea: Tea can lower blood lipids. The blood cholesterol levels and incidence of coronary heart disease in residents of tea-producing areas are significantly lower than in other areas.
⑦ Fish: Fish contains a large amount of advanced unsaturated fatty acids, which is beneficial for lowering blood cholesterol.
⑧ Vegetable oil: Contains essential unsaturated fatty acids for the human body and can lower blood cholesterol. Sesame oil, corn oil, and peanut oil are particularly good choices.
⑨ Other foods: Such as hawthorn, celery, winter melon, coarse oats, and apples, all have varying degrees of lipid-lowering effects. 3. Example of a one-day meal plan
Breakfast: 250 ml of skim milk (250 g of skim milk), cornmeal steamed cake (100 g of cornmeal), and 150 g of mixed shredded lettuce (150 g of lettuce).
Lunch: 100 g of steamed bun or rice (100 g of flour or rice), braised tofu (15 g of dried small shrimps, 25 g of mushrooms, 100 g of tofu), and stir-fried shredded eggplant (100 g of eggplant).
Dinner: 100 g of steamed bun or rice (100 g of flour or rice), stir-fried cabbage with tomatoes (50 g of tomatoes, 100 g of cabbage), and clear stewed chicken pieces (100 g of chicken pieces).
Total cooking oil for the day: 10 grams. The above meal plan provides 1682 kilocalories (7.03 megajoules) of energy.