Can my mother eat foods fried in oil with no cholesterol and trans fat? she's just been diagnosed with high cholesterol.

Diet's only 1 factor: This is between your mother and her personal physician. Hypercholesterolemia is largely about heredity. Managing it needs to include a focus on physical fitness. How much of a role diet and medication will take are questions to be addressed with respect to her long-term care -- and this will include her own preferences. How important are fat-fried foods to her?