We took a wrong turn a few decades ago when we blamed high cholesterol on the intake of fats in our diet. The consequential poor-quality, low-fat diets that followed this incorrect information, where fat was replaced by sugar, have been catastrophic to our health. To make it worse, the collective mindset created by the marketing of that incorrect information has been very hard to re-educate, even though it has long been proven wrong. The true dietary contributor to high cholesterol is sugar. To address high cholesterol from a dietary perspective, refined and simple sugars need to be drastically reduced, and the intake of foods high in omega 3 fats, from healthy, unrefined sources, should be increased.