Heart Disease
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Worst Foods for High Cholesterol
Cut Cholesterol in Your Diet
Cut Cholesterol in Your Diet
Twenty-five percent of the cholesterol in the body comes from food, so making changes to your diet can reduce your total cholesterol level. We’ve suggested healthier alternatives for these high cholesterol culprits—they substitute not-so-healthy saturated fat and very-unhealthy trans fat with healthier mono- and poly-unsaturated fats.
By Nicole Ferring Holovach, MS, RD, published August 16, 2011. Last reviewed by Enoch Choi, MD, on February 23, 2012. Nicole is a Washington, DC-based nutrition communications professional, writer, and yoga teacher. She blogs about holistic health at www.WholeHealthRD.com.
