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How to Lower Your Cholesterol

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Whatever the reasons may be for your high blood cholesterol level - diet, heredity, or both - the treatment your doctor will prescribe first is a diet. If your blood cholesterol level has not decreased sufficiently after carefully following the diet for 6 months, your doctor may consider adding cholesterol-lowering medication to your dietary treatment. Remember, diet is a very essential step in the treatment of high blood cholesterol.
Cholesterol-lowering medications are more effective when combined with diet. Thus they are meant to supplement, not replace, a low-saturated fat, low-cholesterol diet. See also Inherited High Cholesterol

Summary of Diet Guidelines for Lowering High Blood Cholesterol Levels

• Eat less high-fat food (especially those high in saturated fat)
• Replace part of the saturated fat in your diet with unsaturated fat
• Eat less high-cholesterol food
• Choose foods high in complex carbohydrates (starch and fiber)
• Reduce your weight, if you are overweight