Home > Cholesterol > Prevention of Effects of High Cholesterol Get the Flash Player to see this player. Rate: (Click the stars to rate) Published on Oct 05, 2008 by SRBergmann, Views: 5068 High Cholesterol is very common with a westernized high fat, high cholesterol diet. The most important preventive measure that one can take to prevent having high cholesterol is a low fat, low cholesterol diet. For patients that still have high cholesterol with a reasonable low fat diet, doctors will add a medication that can lower cholesterol to prevent the complications of high cholesterol.