>>Nutritional experts that I've talked to all say that your body produces the vast majority of the bad cholesterol in your system. Diet has very little impact upon that.
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>You are talking to the wrong experts. Diet has EVERYTHING to do with it for the majority of normal metabolisms.

Obviously I beg to differ. Genetics is the largest single variable in the whole thing. And genetics determines whether or not your body produces high amounts of cholesterol or not. However, the politically correct health care industry realizes that we have no control over out genetics (yet) so they push diet and/or exercise (the next two leading factors). But since Americans are, by and large, lazy and don't want to have to work out and because fad diets have been popular for so many years - most of what you see in the news is geared toward diet.