Diet is probably the first and most important step in lowering your cholesterol, whether the cause of your high blood cholesterol is hereditary, or embedded in your lifestyle, when diagnosed with high blood cholesterol, your doctor will most likely recommended a dietary change. If this doesn’t help to lower your cholesterol, within several months, your doctor may recommend medication to go alone with your new diet. By no means your medications should substitute a healthy low in saturated fat and low in cholesterol diet.

A low cholesterol diet doesn’t mean, you’ll have to stick with eating fiber from morning till night. There is a large variety of foods which are both low in saturated fat, and contain little to no cholesterol at all, but still can make up the most delicious healthy meal, full of nutrients and vitamins, which provide you provide with plenty of nutritional value and also help to dramatically reduce your bad cholesterol and raise the good HDL cholesterol.

Before we get to the principals of which a health low cholesterol diet is made of, keep in mind tat most low in saturated fat and low in cholesterol foods can easily take the place of those risky fat laden foods, and in most cases, without you even noticing the difference and without feeling guilty for eating foods that can dramatically lower your LDL and raise your HDL cholesterol level.

Being slightly creative is all it takes to turn a diet that puts you in constant high blood cholesterol risk, into a healthy diet which will benefit not only your cholesterol level, buy your overall health and vigor.

Here are the 5 basic principals that constitute a healthy low cholesterol diet:

1.Eat less rich fat foods- this can simply be achieved by reducing the total fat in the food that you eat. In this way you automatically cut down on the consumption of rich in saturated fat foods. Another benefit is losing weight. By eating less high fat food, you will lose weight, and weight as you know is yet another factor in raising LDL blood cholesterol level.

2.Cut down on all saturated fat foods- animal fats: this includes- butter, cheese, whole milk, ice cream and vegetable fat such as: coconut oil, cocoa butter and palm kernel.

3.Replace saturated fat foods with unsaturated fat foods and fiber rich complex carbohydrates. For example: safflower, corn, soybean, cottonseed, fish oil, olive oil, sesame, and sunflower oils. Fiber rich foods, which are also Complex carbohydrates, include: whole wheat breads, pasta, brown rice, dried peas and beans, fruits, and vegetables.

4.Consume less cholesterol rich foods. This includes: eggs, dairy products, meat, poultry, fish, and shellfish, egg yolks and organ meats. You should replace them with little to no cholesterol foods. Which include: fruits, vegetables grains, cereals, nuts, and seeds.

5.Replace your conventional beverages such as coffee, milk or soda with green tea and water. Green tea is rich in flavonoids, helping blood platelets to pass on through the arteries.

All these simple dietary changes will contribute dramatically to reducing you total cholesterol level, lowering your LDL and raising your good HDL cholesterol. All in addition a tremendous promotion to your over whole health, look and feel.