TLC Diet

• The Low Cholesterol Diet does not promise to help with weight loss. It assists with lowering your blood-cholesterol level and, therefore, also you risk of heart disease.
  
  You create a profile of yourself online based upon your age, height, weight, gender and activity level. From this, you are provided the optimum levels of calories, saturated fat and cholesterol that you should consume each day. Based on this information, you decide what you are going to eat each day and how much of it you will eat. You enter this information online, and you are provided with information as to how what you are eating compares with the recommended levels for your profile.
  
  The TLC diet recommends that 25 percent of your total calories come from fat, with less than 7 percent coming from saturated fats, up to 10 percent from polyunsaturated fats, up to 20 percent from monounsaturated fats, 50 to 60 percent from carbohydrates, about 15 percent from protein and less than 200 mg of cholesterol a day.
  
  

Pros and Cons of the TLC Diet

• The American Heart Association endorsed the TLC Diet. The U.S. government supplies an online aid, Create-a-Diet, to assist you in calculating your cholesterol intake. Lowering your cholesterol can reduce the risk of heart disease, and doctors have approved the TLC diet as well.
  
  However, the online support system for the TLC Diet is not the best. It never saves your profile information, so you must re-enter it each time you use it. It also requires that you know what you will eat and how much before you eat. It also does not inform you if you exceed your recommended level.