Specific dietary changes that we should recommend for elevated LDL cholesterol

A high proportion of mortality and morbidity—heart attacks, stroke, kidney failure, and so on—is caused by atherosclerosis. Elevated low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol is one of the key risk factors for atherosclerosis (Grundy et al., 2018). Many of my patients, current and past, have had elevated low-density lipoprotein (LDL) levels. Some of them are on a…