Comment by Cheryl Strachan

If you need to lower LDL cholesterol, the most important change you can make is to cut back on saturated fat, particularly from foods like processed and red meat and butter, and switch to more unsaturated fat instead.

Cholesterol levels are largely driven by the genes you inherit, but your eating habits can affect them as well. For example, more saturated and trans fats cause the liver, in effect, to produce more LDL cholesterol. But does eating more cholesterol c...