Controlling Cholesterol the Natural Way: Eat Your Way to Better Health with New Breakthrough Food Discoveries
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Controlling Cholesterol the Natural Way: Eat Your Way to Better Health with New Breakthrough Food Discoveries
Author:Kenneth H. Cooper, William Proctor Binding: Mass Market Paperback Published: 1999-08-03 ISBN: 0553582100 Availability:
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Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper's all-new plan to lower cholesterol without drugs! The Old News: Elevated levels of cholesterol put you at risk for heart attack and stroke. The New News: Now you can control cholesterol naturally! Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper, a leading authority on controlling cholesterol, shares his all-new plan for balancing your blood lipids--without drugs and without side effects. Drawing on clinical trials and the most up-to-date medical research, Dr. Cooper explains how exciting new food discoveries can give you a revolutionary new way to manage your cholesterol. Inside you'll discover: How the new functional foods, such as Benecol and Take Control, can lower bad cholesterol while improving the ratio between good and bad cholesterol in only three weeks How these "anti-cholesterol" foods work, why they are safe to use, and who should use them How Dr. Cooper's approach can end--or greatly reduce--your use of prescription cholesterol-lowering medications Expert advice on diet and exercise, including recipes and more amazing nutritional discoveries And much more You don't have to go farther than your fridge to find an effective, nonprescription cholesterol-controlling product.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Highly informative and useful:
This book contained a lot of great information. It began by giving a layman's understanding of why we need cholesterol and what too much LDL cholesterol does to our bodies. Dr Cooper then explained a variety of ways to lower the LDL cholesterol without drugs; ways other than just diet and exercise. I came away with a much better understanding of the cholesterol problem than when I started the book.
beating cholesterol!:
If you are like me and cannot take 'statin' drugs, you will appreciate the information in this book. It may tell you some things you already knew, but it also focuses on the natural approach. I think this book is a good reference book for anyone trying to combat inherited high cholesterol and wants alternatives to prescription drugs. I lowered mine from 330 to 220-still high but oh so much better.
Excellent guide to those who want to improve their diet, lower cholesterol:
Benecol Smart Chews, Caramel, 120 Soft Chews In addition to taking products like Benecol to lower cholesterol (and, by the way, Benecol is not a medication, but tastes like candy with the benefit of plants), this book can help give you guidelines for lowering your cholesterol and perhaps help you prevent the use of statins.
Controlling Cholestrol The Natural Way:
This book helped me in some ways, but it was not a simple book to read. I felt that there could have been more information on the exact foods to eat to lower the cholestrol. I will not be using it as an reference