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The trouble with most cholesterol-lowering diets, comments Postgraduate Medicine is that they involves far too many don'ts and only a few do's.
Most of us find it difficult to reduce our intake of animal fats by significant amounts. Another problem we have is that, by increasing our intake of roughage (dietary fiber), we can only lower the blood cholesterol by about 10 percent. When the blood cholesterol level is dangerously high, of course, one has to take a cholesterol-lowering drug, and a few unlucky people need to do so all the time. But what should the average person wishing to lower the blood cholesterol do without resorting to medication?
Most of us find it difficult to reduce our intake of animal fats by significant amounts. Another problem we have is that, by increasing our intake of roughage (dietary fiber), we can only lower the blood cholesterol by about 10 percent. When the blood cholesterol level is dangerously high, of course, one has to take a cholesterol-lowering drug, and a few unlucky people need to do so all the time. But what should the average person wishing to lower the blood cholesterol do without resorting to medication?
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