That what my dr told me too. I told her I eat bacon, steak,pork belly. My cholesterol is 200.Dr said do Mediterranean diet instead, and I'm trying but dh doesn't like alot of it & I can't be fixing us different foods, his cholesterol is high too & he refuses to take meds for it, so we have had to eat even more fish & chicken, turkey & mater Sammies, more salads, we already ate lots of veggies