One group was fed a high cholesterol diet alone, and another the same diet together with vitamins C and E.

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Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, in Germany, performed a trial on mice with the disease and fed them a high cholesterol diet.

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Obesity could prove similar to another American killer, high cholesterol, which was once treatable primarily by diet.

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Moreover, some of the negative health effects of a poor diet--such as hypertension, diabetes and high cholesterol--can be handled with drugs.

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Kynamro (mipomersen sodium) injection as an addition to lipid-lowering medications and diet to treat patients with a rare type of high cholesterol called homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH).

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She said it was also important to remember that regular physical activity combined with a diet high in fruit and vegetables and low in saturated fat was still the best way to combat high cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart disease.

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