Diet and lifestyle choices aren’t only evident on the bathroom scale. The effect of these choices is also reflected with relative accuracy in cholesterol numbers. The May issue of Mayo Clinic Health Letter looks at how an individual’s lifestyle choices can affect “good” and “bad” cholesterol levels as well as levels of triglycerides, another blood fat. Cholesterol isn’t inherently bad…

Diversified Natural Products, Inc. reported results of a new study presented this week at the 58th annual Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology, demonstrating that the addition of HEP-40 (enzymatically hydrolyzed polysaccharide with a molecular weight of 40 kiloDaltons) to statin therapy significantly lowered low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and improved lipid profiles in patients who had not reached target LDL levels. Dr.