I remember being given those as a child. The adult doing the giving looked at me like I was supposed to be ecstatic. My usual response was, "They are nice, but not as good as my mother's." What I wanted to say was, "So, what? Dry cookies?"
Most studies show that the cholesterol we eat is not the stuff in our blood. My assumption is that, since the condition has a name, he has other compounding factors.
To bother and to bite them
Little fleas have lesser fleas
So on ad infinitem.