Making some simple changes to your lifestyle can keep your cholesterol levels and your heart healthier.

Eat a healthy diet, keep active, cut down on alcohol, avoid smoking and look after any other health problems you have to look after your heart.

Easy ways to eat healthily

Eating for lower cholesterol

See what makes up a heart-healthy diet and the specific foods which can lower or raise your cholesterol.

Ultimate Cholesterol Lowering Plan©

This flexible 3-step plan gives you freedom to choose foods you like and build a diet that works for you.

Six cholesterol-busting foods

Some foods punch well above their weight in helping to lower cholesterol levels. We call them cholesterol busters!

Try out some heart healthy recipes

Tasty ways to reduce cholesterol

Quick and easy Featured recipe Stuffed aubergines Meat recipes Wholegrain Baking and snacks Budget friendly Fish recipes Low sugar recipes Nut recipes Recipes using plant sterols/ stanols Soups Ultimate Cholesterol Lowering Plan recipes Vegan recipes

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Healthy vegan and vegetarian diets

Learn the foundations of a heart healthy diet if you are vegan or vegetarian, and the specific nutrients to be aware of.

Why is the Mediterranean diet so good for you?

Basing your diet on the foods people eat in the Mediterranean is a great way to look after your heart. Find out how.

Creating a healthy South Asian diet

South Asian people can be at high risk of high cholesterol. Find out how to cook heart-healthy South Asian meals.

Heart healthy African and Caribbean diets

Healthy eating is essential if you're from an African or Caribbean background, but you don’t have to give up your traditional foods to have a healthy diet.

Find simple swaps and meal plans to keep your heart healthy.

There are other ways to lower cholesterol

As well as eating well, there are other things you can do to look after your health and lower your cholesterol even further.

Learn about alcohol and cholesterol

Learn about being a healthy weight

Rahim’s story

After a health screening revealed troubling results, Rahim contacted HEART UK and took his first step towards a remarkable turnaround.

Read his story

Exercise

There are lots of ways to be active and not all of them involve joining a gym or being on the local football team.

Quit smoking

The risk of heart disease from smoking falls to about a half of that of a smoker in one year, so it’s never too late to quit!

Looking after your weight

Keeping to a healthy weight and losing weight if you need to will help to look after your cholesterol, your blood pressure and your heart.

It's especially important for you to lose weight if you carry your weight around your middle.

Learn about being a healthy weight

Nutrition myths BUSTED by science!

The internet is awash with mis-information on what we should and shouldn’t eat, and often it is in relation to heart health. This can be very difficult to navigate and can lead to unhealthy eating, so we take a look at the most common offenders and separate the fact from fiction.

See the truth behind the myths

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