Experts are changing their minds about cholesterol, you should too

Rabbits are herbivores and cholesterol or animal fat forms no part of their natural diet. So if you use them in any dietary cholesterol study, their levels will definitely shoot up. Photo: AFP

After many years, both the United States government and the American Heart Association (AHA) have changed their policy and taken dietary cholesterol off the “Most Wanted List”.

British heart specialists have also called for the United Kingdom National Health Service guidelines to be overhauled, while questioning whether the millions of patients who are prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs are being unnecessarily medicated.