Controlling Cholesterol For Dummies [NOOK Book]

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Overview

Covers the latest treatments and drugs, plus side effects

The fun and easy way to get your cholesterol under control and live a long, healthy life

Need to get your cholesterol in check? This easy-to-follow guide gives you the latest on lowering your numbers and maintaining healthy cholesterol levels. You'll see how to eat and exercise ...

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Controlling Cholesterol For Dummies

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Overview

Covers the latest treatments and drugs, plus side effects

The fun and easy way to get your cholesterol under control and live a long, healthy life

Need to get your cholesterol in check? This easy-to-follow guide gives you the latest on lowering your numbers and maintaining healthy cholesterol levels. You'll see how to eat and exercise properly, use vitamins and supplements, and quit unhealthy habits. You'll also get new information on prescription drugs and the benefits of moderate drinking.

Discover how to:

  • Know your cholesterol risk
  • Understand "good" and "bad" cholesterol
  • Follow a cholesterol-lowering diet
  • Avoid dangerous drugs
  • Reduce your risk of heart attack
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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.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781118052242
  • Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 4/27/2011
  • Series: For Dummies Series
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 360
  • Sales rank: 281,126
  • File size: 55 MB
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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.

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Table of Contents

Introduction.

Part I: Getting Up Close and Personal with Cholesterol.

Chapter 1: Mapping the Heart Land.

Chapter 2: Comparing Cholesterol’s Risks and Benefits.

Chapter 3: Rating Your Cholesterol-Related Risk.

Part II: Eating Your Way to Lower Cholesterol.

Chapter 4: Writing Rules for a Cholesterol-Lowering Diet.

Chapter 5: Building a Cholesterol-Lowering Diet.

Chapter 6: Pinning Down the “How-To’s” For a Cholesterol-Lowering Diet.

Part III: Leading a Cholesterol-Lowering Lifestyle.

Chapter 7: Weighing Weight’s Weight on Cholesterol.

Chapter 8: Exercising Options to Control Your Cholesterol.

Chapter 9: Weeding Out Tobacco’s Role in High Cholesterol.

Chapter 10: The Grape, the Grains, and Your Cholesterol.

Part IV: Cutting Cholesterol with Nutrients and Medicine.

Chapter 11: Vitamins, Minerals, and Other Good Stuff.

Chapter 12: Prescribing Lower Cholesterol.

Chapter 13: Identifying Meds That Raise Cholesterol.

Chapter 14: Mouth-Watering Morsels for Special Occasions.

Part V: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 15: Ten Clicks to Reliable Cholesterol Information.

Chapter 16: Ten Nutrition Web Sites.

Chapter 17: Ten Cholesterol Myths.

Chapter 18: Ten (Okay, Eleven) “Eureka!” Cholesterol Moments.

Appendix: Calories and Other Nutrients in Food.

Index.

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