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Overview

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, 2nd 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, 2nd Edition will help keep your cholesterol levels under control for good!

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Sixty-five million Americans should be reading this book. That's the number who need to change their diet to lower their cholesterol levels. In dynamic Dummies style, Controlling Cholesterol for Dummies cuts to the chase with precise yet chatty info about diet, exercise, and medication.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780470227596
  • Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 4/28/2008
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 360
  • Sales rank: 175,550
  • Series: For Dummies Series
  • Product dimensions: 190.50 (w) x 233.60 (h) x 20.29 (d)

Meet the Author

Carol Ann Rinzler is the author of Nutrition For Dummies, now in its 4th edition, as well as Heartburn and Reflux For Dummies, and more than 20 other books on food and health. A former nutrition columnist for the New York Daily News, Carol lives in New York with her husband Perry Luntz, author of Whiskey and Spirits For Dummies, and their amiable cat, Katy.

Martin W. Graf, MD, has been a doctor of internal medicine for over 30 years.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1
About This Book 1
Conventions Used in This Books 2
Foolish Assumptions 2
What You're Not to Read 3
How This Book Is Organized 3
Icons Used in This Book 5
Where to Go from Here 5
Part I Getting Up Close and Personal with Cholesterol 7
Chapter 1 Explaining What's Paining Your Arteries 9
Shaking Hands with Your Heart 9
Reaching the Point of This Book 14
Chapter 2 Looking at Cholesterol from Both Sides 15
Shaking Hands with Cholesterol 15
Spreading the Good News: Cholesterol and ... 19
Breaking the Bad News: Cholesterol and ... 23
Focusing on other Blood Baddies 26
Warning! Heart Attack in Progress! 28
Chapter 3 Rating Your Cholesterol Risk 33
Chancing It for Daily Doughnuts 33
Making Tracks: Counting Your Cholesterol 34
Playing Limbo: Higher, Lower, Medium 35
Playing Risk 36
Digging into Your Cholesterol File 41
Reviewing Heart-Attack Risk Factors at a Glance 44
Checking for Plaque Buildup 45
Calculating Your Heart-Attack Risk 47
Part II Eating Your Way to Lower Cholesterol 53
Chapter 4 Writing Rules for a Cholesterol-Lowering Diet 55
Creating the Guidelines Back When the Earth Cooled 55
Doing the Low, Controlled, Two-Step 57
Chapter 5 Building a Cholesterol-Lowering Diet 63
Drawing Xs and Os: Making Your Game Plan 63
Choosing the Fat with the Right Fit 64
Fawning over Fiber 71
You Know the Deal: Everything in Moderation 75
Chapter 6 Rating the Cholesterol-Lowering Impact of Brand-Name Diets 81
Weighing in on Cholesterol 81
Taking It Off: The under 20 Percent Solution 83
Meeting the Moderate Middle: The 20 Percent Solution 86
Moving into More Lenient Lifestyles: The 30 Percent Solution 88
Swimming Upstream to Shed Pounds 91
Fighting Fat and Cholesterol with Fad Diets 95
Clicking with a Diet 99
Part III Leading a Cholesterol-Lowering Lifestyle 101
Chapter 7 Tipping the Scales 103
Weighing Weight's Weight on Cholesterol 103
Figuring Out Who's Fat 106
Making Lifestyle Changes 113
Fulfilling Your Wildest Dreams: Tossing the Scale Out the Window 115
Chapter 8 Pulling on the Leg Warmers and Feeling the Burn 117
Sweating the Definition: Exercise 117
Pairing Exercise and 120
Riding the Stationary Bike into the Sunset 123
Chapter 9 Puffing Up Your Cholesterol 129
Drawing in Heart Disease 129
Burning Up the Cholesterol Charts 130
Getting a Bad Deal on Second Hand Smoke 131
Knowing Your Demographics 133
Breaking the Habit 137
Chapter 10 The Grape, the Grains, and Your Cholesterol 145
Toasting to Your Heart 145
Balancing Risks and Benefits 151
Claiming Booze as a Food Group 155
Part IV Cutting Cholesterol with Nutrients and Medicine 161
Chapter 11 Vitamins, Minerals, and Other Good Stuff 163
Identifying Supplements 163
Popping a Vitamin Pill May Help Lower Cholesterol 164
Fighting Cholesterol with Dietary Fiber 169
Going out on a Limb with Plants 170
Chapter 12 Prescribing Lower Cholesterol 173
Knowing Whether You're a Pill Person 173
Beating the Bile: Bile Acid Sequestrants 176
Trouncing the Tris: Triglyceride Inhibitors 179
Hitting the Source: HMG-CoA Reductase Inhibitors 180
Listing Unusual and/or Surprising Cholesterol-Linked Side Effects of Products Not Necessarily Used to Control Cholesterol 186
Chapter 13 Ditching Dangerous Drugs 189
Good Drugs Gone Bad 189
Sabotaging Cholesterol Therapy 193
Narrowing Your Options 195
Part V The Part of Tens 197
Chapter 14 Ten Important Cholesterol Web Sites 199
National Cholesterol Education Program Guidelines 199
The American Heart Association 200
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute 201
The Mayo Clinic 201
MedicineNet.com 202
HeartPoint 202
University of Delaware Cooperative Extension 203
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research 203
Brand Name Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs 204
WebMD 205
Chapter 15 Ten Nutrition Web Sites 207
Tufts University Nutrition Navigator 208
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Nutrient Database 209
The American Heart Association 210
The American Dietetic Association 211
Food and Nutrition Information Center 211
The Food and Drug Administration 212
The Special Nutritionals Adverse Event Monitoring System 213
The Food Allergy Network 214
The Weight Control Information Network 214
American Council on Science and Health and the Center for Science in the Public Interest 215
Chapter 16 Ten Cholesterol Myths 217
Most of the Cholesterol in Your Body Comes from Food 217
All Fatty Foods Raise Your Cholesterol 218
Women Never Have to Worry about Their Cholesterol 219
Children Have No Cholesterol Problems 219
Eating More Dietary Fiber Lowers Blood Cholesterol 220
Cholesterol is the Only Thing that Leads to Plaque in Your Arteries 221
Red Meat Has More Cholesterol than Chicken or Turkey 221
Taking Vitamins Lowers Your Cholesterol 222
A Heart Attack is the Only Health Risk Associated with High Cholesterol 222
Changing Your Diet Is the Only Way to Control Your Cholesterol 223
You Can Never Be Too Rich or Too Thin and Your Cholesterol Can Never Be Too Low 224
Chapter 17 Ten Landmarks in Cholesterol History 227
1957: The Prudent Diet 227
1958: Introducing Cholesterol Busters 228
1971: Naming Cholesterol an Official Risk Factor for Heart Attack 228
1971: MRFIT Gets Going 229
1984: Indicting Hypercholesterolemia 229
1985: Recognizing the Risk from LDLs 230
1985-1987: Establishing the National Cholesterol Education Program 230
1986: Unveiling Statins 230
1988, 1993, 2001: ATP I, ATP II, ATP III 230
2001: Baycol Bombs 231
Chapter 18 Ten Foods to Avoid 233
Liver 233
Butter 234
Margarine with Trans Fatty Acids 234
Poultry Skin and Dark Meat 235
Lamb 236
Frankfurter 236
Whole-Milk Products 236
Coconut 238
Unfiltered Coffee 238
Eggs 239
Chapter 19 Ten Foods That Help Lower Cholesterol 241
Stanol or Sterol Margarines 241
Oatmeal 242
Brown Rice 243
Apples 244
Grapes 244
Beans 245
Onions and Garlic 246
Bison 246
Chocolate 247
Appendix 249
Index 303

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