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Useful Guides

Explore our guides and take another step towards living well.

Practical ways to put cholesterol-friendly eating into action

Our collection of guides are designed to help you make simple, sustainable changes that fit into everyday life. These expert-developed resources provide clear, evidence-based advice and practical tips you can start using straight away.

Cholesterol SMART® Fibre Swaps

Give your fibre intake a boost with simple everyday food swaps and meal ideas. Discover easy ways to help close your daily 10g fibre gap and support your heart health.

Healthy Eating Guide

This handy leaflet explains the basics of healthy eating in a colourful, easy-to-use format. It covers all the major food groups and the healthy swaps you can make to lower your cholesterol levels.

Cholesterol SMART® Shopping

Our SMART guide helps you make confident, heart-healthy choices aisle by aisle.

Be Fat SMART

Simple, practical swaps to help you balance your fats. These small changes can make a big difference to cutting down your saturated fat and keep your blood cholesterol in check.

Cholesterol SMART® UPF Guide

Use this guide to see which Ultra-processed Foods can support your cholesterol and which are best limited.

Take on our 1-2-3-4-5 Challenge

Simply add one simple cholesterol-lowering habit each week, and in just five weeks you’ll have five new heart-healthy habits for life. Get started with our tips, recipes and tracker.

Cholesterol SMART® Plate

Learn how to build balanced, heart-healthy meals with our practical Cholesterol SMART ® Plate.