I think flax is good for this. You can add it into your diet anytime you make a bread, pancakes, breading, cookies, cakes. It does have some of the same properties when baking as eggs so reduce the egg amount in the recipe (when making a batter you can just replace the eggs with the goo that flax creates when soaking in hot water). I use flax meal in about everything, it has a great nutty flavor.

go to this site and do a search. Lots of info here.

www.knowledgeofhealth.com/

One way to lower total and LDL cholesterol is to consider taking an Oral Chelation supplement.

This is less invasive than I.V chelation and also less expensive.
Barbara and I both take this to keep our cholesterol under control.

any refined foods are bad i.e. white flour. Here is a list of foods that help to combat high cholestoral.ALMONDS, APPLES, AVOCADOS, BARLEY, BEANS, CARROTS, GARLIC, GRAPEFRUIT, SHIITAKE, OATS, OLIVE OIL, BROWN RICE, SOYBEANS, WALNUTS. Low fat doesn't really mean anything. The body needs fats, just the right type. Olive oil, is a good one for cooking and flax is great for salads but must not be cooked with. Hope this helps. I am a certified nutrition educator and natural chef.

Good for your concern, and good for you for looking for a way to help your mother's healing through diet. Unfortunately, people have been greatly misinformed about the the whole "low fat, good fat, no fat, bad fat" thing.

The following is a copy of something I wrote up for my own parents who also have high cholesterol.

Fats are a very complicated subject and much misinformation has been presented on the subject. It is common belief that a diet low in fats, particularly saturated and animal fats, is the healthiest. However, there is little to no research to back this idea up. For example, one of the most well known low fat diets is the Pritikin diet, developed by Nathan Pritikin. This diet involved eliminating fats, sugars, white flour and all processed foods. It advocates eating fresh raw foods and whole grains while getting lots of exercise (although most people do forget that portion of the diet). This diet will initially cause weight loss and lower blood presser and cholesterol. However, it is nearly impossible for anyone to stay on the diet for very long. People that stick with the diet develop low energy, inability to concentrate, depression, weight gain and mineral deficiencies. Nathan Pritikin himself died of suicide in the prime of his life after he realized that his diet didn't really work.
Before 1920 coronary heart disease was very rare in America. Clogged arteries were a medical rarity. However, over the next 40 years the incidence of heart disease rose dramatically. By the mid 50's heart disease was the leading cause of death in all Americans, and it causes 40 percent of all American deaths today. If animal and saturated fats did indeed cause heart disease one would see an increase in the consumption of animal fats during this period. However, the reverse is actually true. From 1910-1970, the proportion of traditional animal fat in the American diet declined from 83% to 62%, and butter consumption dropped from 18 pounds a year per person to a mere 4 pounds. During this same time period the percentage of dietary vegetable oils such as margarine, shortening, and refined cooking oils like canola oil, increased about 400%. Also during this period the consumption of sugar and processed foods increased 60%.
Many studies have been done showing that the more cholesterol one ate also ate the most calories, and ate the most saturated fat, weighed the least and were the most physically active. Meanwhile, people who reduced saturated fat and cholesterol intake weighed more and were at a higher risk for heart disease. One British study on the subject asked its first group to eat the "healthy" diet of reduced animal fats and cholesterol. This group was also asked to quit smoking. The second group continued to eat all the saturated fat and cholesterol they wanted, and were not asked to quit smoking. In the end the second group had a much lower cholesterol levels, weighed less, and had little risk of heart disease, even though they were still smoking.
Another study done on a cholesterol lowering drug found that the drug only decreased the rate of coronary disease by 24% and that the group taking the drug had an increase in non-heart disease related deaths such as cancer, stroke, violence, and suicide.
A Medical Research Council study found that men eating butter ran half the risk of developing heart disease than those who ate margarine.
Also, breast milk, being the perfect food made by humans especially for humans, has a higher proportion of cholesterol than almost any other food. Fifty percent of its calories are from fat, much of it saturated fat.
Most traditional diets are very high in fats. And most people living one these diets are very healthy, hearty and long lived. For example, Eskimos live almost exclusively on raw animal fats and have little to no incidence of disease, particularly heart disease. The Japanese, being statistically the longest lived peoples of any nation today, consume almost all their fat from animal sources. They also do a good portion of their cooking in lard and eat almost no vegetable oils or fat derivatives. The French also have a comparative low amount of heart disease despite the fact that everything they eat is lathed in butter, cheese, and duck fat. (315 out of 100,000 middle aged American men die of heart attacks each year, while only 145 out of 100,000 die of heart attacks in France) (Also, the French do suffer from many other diseases due to their use of white sugar and flour.)
And research from the University of Maryland found that vegetable fat consumption correlated with high rates of cancer, while animal fats did not.
There are also over looked benefits of eating fats. When eating fats in a meal, they help to slow digestion, making you feel fuller in between meals and helping you to digest the nutrients in the meal. Fats also carry many fat soluble vitamins such as A, D, E, and K. Also, fats are necessary to convert carotene to vitamin A, and for mineral absorption.

So that is that. Flax oil does help for many people, I've read many great things about it. As far as where you want your good fat to come from, I have read that organic butter from healthy grass fed cows is one of the BEST sources of fat. Raw, unrefined organic coconut oil is also a great source for fat and great for cooking. It is true that you do no want to over heat any of your fats because the heating process does generally destroy the nature of the fat. High quality expreller pressed olive and safflower oils(I reccomend spectrum brand) are also good for cooking, but I personally do not think that they are as good as butter just because cooking oils tend to go rancid very easily and very quickly.

Flax Seed Meal and Organic Coconut Oil both will reduce the high Cholestrol , if other foods
are controlled in the Diet. Flax Seed Meal can also be used as a Substitute for the normal
Oils or Butter, when Cooking. See www.coconutoil.com . You'll be amazed at all of the Benefits
it has. Both are wonderful, whether or not there is a cholestrol problem.

All Natural, Organic Coconut Oil...........See :

www.coconutoil.com

You will be amazed at all of the Wonderful Benefits.
Mine came from Piggly Wiggly or from a Health
Food Store. The Instructions on the Website,
say 3-4 Tablespoons Daily. Tell her to stay
away from White Foods, including Flour, White
Rice and Potatoes AND RED MEAT AND PORK.
Absolutely NO PROCESSED FOOD OR FAST FOODS.