Need to get your cholesterol in check? You'll find the latest information about cholesterol, including treatments, drug information, and dietary advice, in Controlling Cholesterol For Dummies, 2^nd Edition, an easy-to-understand guide to cholesterol control. You'll learn how to lower your numbers and maintain healthy cholesterol levels. You'll also find out how to eat and exercise properly, use vitamins and supplements, and quit unhealthy habits.
You'll find out cholesterol's positive functions and why too much can be a bad thing. You can also assess your cholesterol risk by taking your age, sex, ethnicity, and family history into consideration. Find out what you need to ask your doctor about stress tests, ECBT, and angiograms to check for plaque buildup. Design a cholesterol-crushing diet and understand which foods can help you lower your numbers. Find out how smoking, alcohol, exercise, excess weight, supplements, and prescription medications affect your cholesterol levels. Find out how to:

Assess your cholesterol risk
Understand the benefits and risks associated with cholesterol
Design and adhere to a cholesterol-lowering diet
Avoid dangerous drugs
Reduce your risk of heart attack
Choose fats and fibers correctly
Check for plaque buildup

Complete with lists of ten important cholesterol websites, ten nutrition websites, ten cholesterol myths, ten landmarks in cholesterol history, ten foods that raise your cholesterol, and ten foods that lower your cholesterol, Controlling Cholesterol For Dummies, 2^nd Edition will help keep your cholesterol levels under control for good!

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

Informative guide for those needing to know more about cholesterol:

When my cholesterol levels went sky high, I started a proactive
approach to do all that I could to lower them . . . one thing I've
been doing is to read all I can about the subject, including
CONTROLLING CHOLESTEROL FOR DUMMIES (2nd ed.)
by Carol Ann Rinzler.
This informative guide contained all the information I wanted
to know about the subject--and then some . . . I could have done
without some of the material that was surprisingly technical, and
53 pages... more info

confusing cholesterol:

Having to recently begin watching my cholesterol I purchased this book as I thought it would be the easiest and quickest book to help me understand eating and cookiing. However, I found it more confusing than anything else and very similar to any other book as far as technical information, though, it tried to be "cute" a lot. I would have been interested in sample menus and clearly posted lists showing foods to avoid etc. The chapters on 10 foods to avoid and 10 foods to include were interesting but not... more info

attacking cholesterol:

This is a great reference book for those of us fighting the dreaded cholesterol monster. I can say no more than that it is worth the money and a must have.

Boring read, good information:

The title says it all. I tried to read from cover to cover but it's just boring. So I jumped around, which be design works great that way, got the information I needed, and moved on with my life.

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