Nutrition experts came up with ten tricks that can be applied in your own kitchen, at the supermarket or at restaurants if you have a high level of cholesterol but still enjoy having many square meals a day.

In your own kitchen

Start using rather high-quality margarine instead of butter. People suffering from a high cholesterol level (low-density lipoproteins/ LDL) have to avoid animal saturate fats, encountered in aliments such as cheeses, salamis, cream or butter. By consuming less of these products, the level of bad cholesterol decreases. Be careful, though: not all margarines are high-quality: they have to contain maximum 17% saturate fats, according to linternaute.fr.
Although it might be better than butter, oil contains lots of calories so do not make abuse of it. Use vegetable oils for cooking, such as olive oil and soya oil. Avoid the use of palm oil because although it is vegetal, contains fat saturate acids (bad fats) up to 50%, unlike the other vegetable oils (5%-15%).