To protect the body from the effects of a high-fat diet, take lecithin.
In normal health, when a diet high in fat is taken, there is tremendous increase in the production of lecithin. This helps in changing the fat in the blood from large particles to smaller and smaller ones.
In case of atherosclerosis, however, the lecithin in the blood remains very low regardless of the quantity of fat entering the blood.
The result is that, the fat particles remain too large to be able to pass through the arterial walls. A more serious situation can develop if there is lack of lecithin in cells also.