Can you eat your way to lower cholesterol levels? Apparently, yes.
While drugs called statins do a good job of reducing the amount of artery-clogging fats in the blood, a new study finds that it's also possible to get some of the same heart-healthy benefits just by eating foods that can mimic some of the drugs' effects.
In a trial involving 345 people with high or borderline-high cholesterol levels, those who ate a diet rich in cholesterol-lowering foods like soy, nuts, fiber and plant oils (like margarine) lowered their LDL, or bad cholesterol, by 14% over six months, compared with an...
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