India, Feb. 4 -- While your body needs some cholesterol to make hormones, vitamin D, and substances that help you digest foods, it is the bad cholesterol, also known as LDL or low-density lipoprotein, that you should be wary of.

The World Heart Federation says that high cholesterol causes 4.4 million deaths every year, or 7.8 percent of all deaths. But the good news is that it is one of the major controllable risk factors for heart disease. But do you really need to eat 'like a cow' to get the cholesterol levels under control?

According to Dr Sermed Mezher, a family medicine physician and content creator, receiving a high cholesterol diagnosis often triggers an immediate sense of urgency. This leads many to consider a 'crash diet' or ex...