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Eating certain healthy foods like almonds, soy, and fiber every day for a month might lower bad cholesterol by almost a third—even if you're already eating pretty well.

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Effects of a diet high in plant sterols, vegetable proteins, and viscous fibers (dietary portfolio) on circulating sterol levels and red cell fragility in hypercholesterolemic subjects

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2005 Feb

The study tested the exact diet described and found it lowered bad cholesterol by 29%, just like the claim says.

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Effects of a diet high in plant sterols, vegetable proteins, and viscous fibers (dietary portfolio) on circulating sterol levels and red cell fragility in hypercholesterolemic subjects

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DOI: 10.1007/s11745-005-1372-6

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