Diet alone substantially reduces cholesterol in hypercholesterolaemia

EDITOR—In his letter Oliver states that “simple low fat and low cholesterol diets do not reduce plasma cholesterol concentration sufficiently to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease.”1 Although this may be true of dietary advice offered to free-living communities—in which a 6% reduction in blood cholesterol concentrations is achieved1—it is not true of individual care and monitoring given by enthusiastic dietitians and physicians to well motivated subjects with hypercholesterolaemia. My colleagues and I found that …