Kraft liveactive lowering your cholesterol

Getting your cholesterol down is not difficult. In fact, simple changes in your diet can make a real difference to cholesterol in your body.

Here are the Top 5 diet tips from Prof Peter Clifton, co-author of The CSIRO Healthy Heart Program:

Have 2g plant sterols everyday from KRAFT liveactive cheese or other plant sterol-containing products
Trim all fat from meat and skin from chicken
Avoid sausages, sausage meat and salami
Replace butter with polyunsaturated oil or margarine
Increase fruit, vegetables and fibre from oats

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About Prof Peter Clifton

Kraft Foods has engaged Professor Peter Clifton while he was the Head of Clinical Research Unit at CSIRO Health Sciences and Nutrition to independently verify the functional cholesterol lowering attributes of plant sterols in KRAFT liveactive cheese. Kraft once again worked with Prof Clifton, now Head of Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute's Nutrition Intervention Laboratory, for his scientific expertise input to consumer education. Professor Peter Clifton is an early world-leader in the genetic determinants of dietary responsiveness to fat and cholesterol. He is co-author of the best selling publications, The CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet and The Healthy Heart Program; His passion and commitment to the science of nutrition is reflected in his long list of achievements throughout these years. He was recently awarded a fellowship of Nutrition Society of Australia, the society's most senior award to individuals who have made contributions of special merit to scientific study of nutrition and its applications to people and animals. Professor Clifton has also been appointed by the South Australian Minister for Health to the Obesity, Prevention and Lifestyle Scientific Advisory Committee.