Give up all white flour, white rice and potatoes for a bit and see what it does. Give up sugar too, unless you keep just a tiny bit. Cook and sweeten with stevia. Read up on Syndrome X and insulin resistance. Shredded wheat and skim milk might just be the worst possible thing to do. Read what Dr. Mary Enig ahs to say about the benefits of fats. Try and actually find research that says cholesterol is related to natural saturated fats in most people (not trans fats..often teh research mixes them together...it is like mixing poison and manna). Read metabolic body typing, reading anything by Dr. Schwarzbein..she is on the internet..Some people can reduce cholesterol quite a bit with diet and it is not the diet you ahve described. mg