There is an excellent book, "The Great Cholesterol Myth" by Drs. Stephen Sinatra and Johnny Bowden, which debunks all the standard persuasions used to steer patients (victims) toward statin drugs. I highly recommend it.

As I heard it put once, cholesterol is like a fire department. When you correlate the presence of cholesterol with arterial inflammation as a bad thing, you are essentially blaming the fire department for setting the house on fire. Better to work on reducing the inflammation. And to avoid food because it contains cholesterol is an absurdity. That cholesterol is digested; the body makes cholesterol that appears in our bloodstream.