Lower Cholesterol: 5 Levers

Most cholesterol apps count the wrong thing. They score the cholesterol in your food, in milligrams. Decades of evidence say that number barely moves the cholesterol in your blood — which is why the US dietary guidelines dropped their limit on it, and why the NHLBI no longer lists it as a cause. Saturated fat does move it. So do soluble fibre, plant sterols, nuts and plant fats, and exercise. Those are the five levers. This app scores those, and nothing else. WHAT YOU GET, FREE • A daily score out of 100 across the five levers • Saturated fat as a budget you spend, not a target you chase • Photo logging — point the camera at a meal, confirm the amounts • Barcode scanning, unlimited • Restaurant menus with the saturated fat those kitchens publish themselves • Calories, protein, carbs and fibre — shown, never scored • Lab panel history, a retest countdown, and a before-and-after • Recent peer-reviewed research on each lever, straight from PubMed LOGGED THE WAY YOU ATE IT Four tenders. One medium fries. Half an apple. Two slices. No weighing anything, and no converting to grams unless you want to. Ate somewhere the app does not know? Pick the closest kind of dish and it logs as an honest estimate — and says so. A rough day beats a missing one. IT TELLS YOU WHEN IT WAS WRONG Add your lab panel and set a retest date. While you log, the app projects how far your LDL should move, based on what you actually ate. When the next panel comes back, a lab settles it — including when the app promised more than your blood delivered. Nothing in your score is generated or guessed. The same meal always scores the same, and every point is arithmetic you can open up and check. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No calorie goal. No macro targets. No streak you break by eating a big lunch. The numbers are there when you want them and they never judge you. Eggs and shrimp cost you nothing. PRIVACY Your logs, lab panels and settings stay on your device. No accounts, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking. Meal photos are analysed and discarded in the same request — never stored, never used to train anything. Educational information only, not medical advice. Diet changes are not a substitute for treatment — talk to your doctor about your lipid panel. Some high cholesterol is inherited and responds little to diet; familial hypercholesterolaemia affects roughly 1 in 250 people. Nutrition data for packaged foods from Open Food Facts, used under the Open Database License. Research listings from PubMed.