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    Keeping your cholesterol in check is key to preventing serious conditions like stroke and heart disease. Nutritionist Patricia Bannan tells us about ...

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There's no magic bullet when it comes to lowering cholesterol.

Nutritionist Patricia -- and says in addition to medication.

Accommodation of lifestyle changes like exercise.

Stress reduction and diet will do the trick.

If your cholesterol to hide it can lead to stroke lead to heart attack thinking clog your arteries it's really important know your cholesterol numbers.

Did you that some surprising foods can send your high cholesterol packing.

A recent study that was in the American journal of clinical nutrition found -- eating lean -- every day as part of a heart healthy diet.

Help reduce that cholesterol levels -- to 10%.

Which is equivalent to other recommended -- heart healthy diet.

However this is an open invitation to -- indulge.

Then and recommends seeking to a four ounce portion and chasing cuts like top sirloin and tenderloin Tebow and stay.

And 95%.

Lean ground the broccoli is one of the healthiest foods around.

But in new hybrid made up of British broccoli and -- wild Sicilian broccoli is especially effective for lowering cholesterol.

You don't need to eat this super broccoli -- to get the benefits of the regular variety works well too.

-- University of Oklahoma study found that freeze -- strawberry powder.

Lower in fat -- levels by 11%.

An obese patients in an eight week period and now the economy is in the study -- it commercially available covered strawberries in general have a lot of heart healthy benefits.

-- and says incorporating one -- of dark chocolate a few times a week and two to four cups of Green tea a day into your diet.

Will also send your bad cholesterol plummeting.

Flax seeds are also beneficial.

I'm Heather Childers Fox News.