Has your doctor told you that your cholesterol is high? If s/he has, the good news is that there are things you can do to bring it down!

Maudene Nelson, RD, CDE tells us why it can be good for our health to eat less meat than we usually do.  Maudene has been a nutrition educator at the Columbia University Institute of Human Nutrition for the past thirty years. She is also a diabetes educator at the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center.

Why is high cholesterol a problem?

Cholesterol is a fat-like substance that your body can make and is also found in foods that come from animals like cheese, meat, and eggs.   Your body needs some cholesterol, but when blood cholesterol is too high it can lead to heart disease. In our blood, there are two main types of cholesterol:

Maudene Nelson, RD, CDE has been a nutrition educator at the Columbia University Institute of Human Nutrition for the past thirty years. She is also a diabetes [healthopedia] educator at the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center where she teaches people with diabetes how to make their diets better in order to improve their health. Here she tells us how people with diabetes can start changing the things they eat to manage their diabetes.

Dr. Thomas Nickolas, a nephrologist at New York Presbyterian Hospital tells us what we can do to keep our kidneys in good health. He also tells us what cholesterol is and how you can keep your cholesterol levels low.

Changing the type of oil you use is an easy way to reduce calories and fat from your diet.