People have varying degrees of success in lowering their cholesterol levels by changing their diets. There are people have high cholesterol because they eat too many fatty foods, if you are one of these people you can reduce your cholesterol by 10% to 20% with diet changes alone, there are others achieve 5% to 8% reduction. Diet changes are often the first steps in lowering cholesterol levels before medicines are added. The main dietary goal is to reduce the amount of saturated fat you eat, because too much saturated fat can raise cholesterol level. You can reduce the saturated fats in your diet, limiting the amounts of meat and dairy products you consume. Choose low fat content products of food groups instead. Replace most of the animal fat in your diet with unsaturated fat, especially monounsaturated oils, like olive oil, canola or peanut. Monounsaturated fat lowers LDL (low-density lipoprotein) cholesterol when to replace saturated fats and maintain HDL (high-density lipoprotein) cholesterol activities. Source: Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes Diet for High Cholesterol
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