Your Cholesterol Matters: What Your Numbers Mean and How You Can Improve Them

by Richard MD Furman

Overview

A must-read for those on cholesterol lowering medication and those with stents in their hearts

When it comes to our health, what we don't know can harm us most. Eighty-five percent of people over the age of fifty have significant blockage in the arteries of their hearts without any symptoms. Two-thirds of the time, the initial symptom is a full-blown heart attack. Doctors tell patients to watch their diet, get regular exercise, and lose weight—but they also increasingly prescribe "cholesterol lowering" drugs that patients will take every day for the rest of their lives. The problem is that a daily pill only addresses one small part of the cholesterol problem.

Dr. Furman wants readers to understand what their cholesterol numbers mean, how best to change levels of both the "lethal" LDL cholesterol and "hero" HDL cholesterol, and how to adjust their lifestyles in order to stay off of expensive medications that don't address the whole problem (and often have negative health-impacting side effects). Not only will Dr. Furman's advice make them healthier in the short term, it will also enable them to have more control over the aging process, allowing them to live longer, better lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800728052
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/03/2017
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	715,482
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Richard Furman, MD, FACS, spent over thirty years as a vascular surgeon. Furman is past president of the North Carolina Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, past president of the North Carolina Surgical Society, and a two-term governor of the American College of Surgeons. He is cofounder of World Medical Mission, the medical arm of Samaritan's Purse, and is a member of the board of Samaritan's Purse. He lives in Boone, North Carolina.

Table of Contents

Preface 7

Introduction 11

Part 1 Taking Charge

1 Cholesterol Matters 27

2 Three Lifestyles That Will Change Your Life 39

Part 2 Lifestyle 1: Weight Control

3 Losing Weight and Keeping It Off 53

4 Reaching Your Ideal Weight 67

5 Simple Steps for Losing Weight 71

Part 3 Lifestyle 2: Food

6 Fats to Never Eat 83

7 Foods to Avoid at Each Meal 97

8 The Good Food Platform 111

9 Cancer-Causing Foods 119

Part 4 Lifestyle 3: Exercise

10 The Importance of Exercise 125

11 The Best Prescription You Can Fill 131

12 Building a Stronger Heart 137

Conclusion 143

Epilogue 153

Medical References 159