Greetings, I've just joined. I read in the reviews of the SP cookbooks on amazon that some people seem to have their cholesterol levels go up rather seriously on the diet and they have had to remove a lot of the high cholesterol foods from the plan, which seems to be a huge part of the foods on plan to begin with. I thought the plan was to help lower those levels, among other things. Please if anyone can lend some insight or personal experience with what their cholesterol levels have done since going on the diet, I would be grateful. And greetings to all. Thanks for your help. fengshui