High cholesterol: Increase dietary fibre to ‘naturally lower your cholesterol’

First, it emphasises the importance of choosing healthier fats. It says: “To help lower your cholesterol you don’t need to avoid fats altogether. You should cut down on foods high in saturated fat and replace them with food high in unsaturated”.

It says: “Compare labels and choose foods with green or amber labels for ‘saturates’.”

Foods are high, red, in saturated fat if they contain more than 5g of saturated fat per 100g. Foods containing 1.5g or less per 100g are low, green, in saturated fat.

Nonetheless, the site notes: “Some healthy foods that are high in fat like oily fish, nuts and oils, may be red for saturated fat. This is okay, as they contain more of the healthy unsaturated fat.”