High cholesterol control

• Genetics: This plays an important role in deciding whether a person is likely to suffer from high cholesterol.
  
  
  People may inherit a condition called familial hypercholesterolemia, which means that very high cholesterol levels run in the family, inherit high triglyceride levels, triglyceride being another type of blood fat that can also push up cholesterol levels or just be more likelier than others to react to diverse lifestyle factors like a high-fat diet or the lack of exercise.

• Your diet: A person’s diet also plays an influential role as eating too much of saturated fats can cause your body to produce more cholesterol than necessary, causing your blood cholesterol levels to rise. You should therefore avoid, or at least reduce your intake of, foods like red meat, lard, cakes, and so on.
  
  
  

• Weight: Excess weight tends to increase your cholesterol level. If you’re overweight and suffer from high cholesterol levels, losing weight may help you lower it.

• Alcohol and smoking: Alcohol has been shown to contribute to a higher level of LDL (bad cholesterol) and in the blood, while also decreasing the amount of HDL (good cholesterol). Smoking is also known to reduce your HDL cholesterol. You should therefore both reduce alcohol consumption and avoid smoking.

• Exercising regularly and bringing his body weight to normal.

• Avoiding alcohol and smoking

• Avoiding food rich in saturated fats like red meat, pastry and cream.

• Eating plenty of fruits, vegetables and whole grains

• Getting a good night’s sleep (8 hours a night is recommended)

High cholesterol control

• Apart from medication, the two main things that you can use to control cholesterol are diet and exercise. First of all, you should cut down the amount of fat in your diet. Remember that fat is an essential part of your diet, so you shouldn't suddenly cut it out entirely. However, you can opt for low-fat or fat-free dairy products and cook in olive oil instead of butter or other oil (olive oil is high in monounsaturated fat). When possible, you can also cook in vinegar instead of oil. Cut down the amount of meat in your diet, and instead eat more vegetables, fruits, and whole grain. When you do eat meat, limit your portions and and make them as lean as possible. Choose fish over red meat — fish is low in cholesterol and rich in Omega-3 fatty acids, which protect the heart from cholesterol damage. Increase your intake of fiber, soluble as well as insoluble. Oats are a great source of soluble fiber, while flaxseed contains insoluble fiber as well as Omega-3 fatty acids.
  
• All of this, however, will only address your cholesterol problem. If you have other diseases or disorders that require dietary modifications, you should create an appropriate diet plan yourself, in consultation with your doctor.