Plant sterols (also known as phytosterols) are natural substances that can help lower your cholesterol. They exist in wood pulp and leaves, but are also found naturally in certain foods such as ...

Make room in your pantry for a new batch of disease-fighting products: foods fortified with sterols and stanols, plant compounds proven to protect your heart. Sterols and stanols are found naturally ...

Phytosterols not only support plant development but also offer health benefits such as cholesterol-lowering, anti-inflammatory, and anticancer properties. Rapeseed oil, rich in phytosterols like ...

High cholesterol often doesn't show any clear symptoms, earning it the moniker 'silent killer' because it's typically only detected through a blood test. Without proper management, this condition can ...

Heart specialists have identified foods that could potentially offer similar benefits to statins, such as the ability to lower cholesterol levels. Cardiologists from the British Heart Foundation (BHF) ...

Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers ...

Scientists seeking to unravel the details of how plants produce and accumulate oil have identified a new essential component of the assembly line. They discovered a particular sterol -- a molecule ...