Right Direction Cookies Lowers Cholesterol

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while now, you’d see that the border delineating “health food” and “junk food” are getting more and more murky. And with this post, I’ll make it even murkier. (Note: this is not a sponsored post)

Chocolate chip cookies: Good or Bad?

Bad for the waistline, perhaps, but some chocolate chip cookies claim to do the heart good.

Right Direction Chocolate Cookies have been launched earlier this year, and the manufacturers claim that, due to their dietary fiber and plant sterol content, these cookies promote healthy cholesterol levels, and therefore reduce the risk of heart disease. This claim is supported by a a randomized, double blind, crossover, placebo-controlled study (ok, that’s a mouthful, but just goes to say that it’s more or less reliable) confirming that these cookies lowers LDL cholesterol by modifying lipoprotein metabolism in hypercholesterolemic individuals.

According to the Right Direction website:

Two tasty chocolate chip Right Direction Cookies™ contain 10 grams of dietary fiber, including 8 grams of soluble fiber (same amount of soluble fiber as 3 cups of cooked oatmeal), and 2.6 grams of plant sterols (same amount of plant sterols as 3 cups of sunflower seeds).

Additionally, like other soluble fibers, psyllium fiber may also help in digestion, preventing constipation, diarrhea and irritable bowel syndrome.

These cookies, formulated by two registered dieticians, may be ordered online.