Mama ate what she wanted and her cholesterol was over 350 the last several years of her life. She smoked and dranked, ate fried foods, junk and all that stuff, never had any kind of heart disease when she died at 81 of colon cancer.... 5 years after her oldest son died, he was the one who took care of himself, never smoked, never drank , watched what he ate and lived the healthiest life he could... then died of colon cancer at the age of 55.