I have heriditary high cholesterol also. I can't remember what my levels were, they were done 8 months ago, but they were slightly under needing medication. Instead i have a health plan with a dieitican to try and get it to lower naturally.

Food only contributes 10% of cholesterol i believe, and cholesterol cycles within your body so it is very hard to get rid of it. One thing that does apparently is beans, my dieitican said i should use a lot of these.

Anyway, working with the dieitican has been fantastic, i have to get my levels rechecked, but in generally it was a huge help, even though i thought i knew most of the stuff.

That and getting rid of any excess weight is also good.