Our latest Well Informed column concerns a topic close to many people’s hearts: cholesterol. Your doctor will tell you that eating the right foods can be as effective as pills to lower the amount of it in your blood. Fad diets are a dime a dozen, but there is one approach that really seems to work.

In other news, the USS Gerald Ford, the world’s largest aircraft-carrier, has been ordered to sail to the Caribbean. It is part of a vast and unexplained military build-up in the region. Is the United States preparing to go to war with the regime of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela?