The Portfolio Diet is the latest in cholesterol-lowering eating. Put a group of superfoods together in a portfolio, and eventually you can throw away your statins have you noticed how all nutritionists cover themselves by saying you shouldn't do their diet without consulting your GP: do people really do that?

As human life gets more stressful everyday,rising our blood sugar and cholesterol levels, which in turn leads to incresed risk of heart attacks, obesity and osteoporosis, its extremely essential that we take charge of our lives and do whatever is in our hand to keep our cholesterol levels under control right from the beginning.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins may have discovered an unintended benefit in the drugs millions of Americans take to lower their cholesterol: The medications, all statins, seem to lower the risk of a potentially lethal blood infection known as sepsis in patients on kidney dialysis. The study is published in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

New discoveries offer promise for developing drugs that improve on the therapeutic profile of niacin, the inexpensive, time-tested B-vitamin that boosts levels of HDL cholesterol - the "good" cholesterol with the potential to protect people against heart attacks and stroke, scientists reported today.