text: Bad cholesterol can be lowered and good cholesterol can be raised by:\n\n1.)  Eliminating hydrogenated oils from your diet.  (Hydrogenated oils are those nasty little trans fats that everyone should avoid.  Read the ingredients list on your foods.)\n2.)  Use predominantly olive oil in your cooking.\n3.)  Adding fish oil capsules to your daily vitamins.\n4.)  Taking a niacin supplement.  (I would strongly recommend the slow release kind.)\n5.)  Consume more whole grains such as old fashioned oatmeal or whole wheat breads and pastas.  Make sure it's whole wheat by reading the ingredients. If it says "enriched wheat", go onto the next one.  Enriched means that they've removed all the fiber from it and put just a tiny amount back in.  \n\nGood luck!