Controlling Cholesterol For Dummies
by Carol Ann Rinzler, Martin W. Graf
for Dummies Health, for Dummies
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The latest ways to lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart disease 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, show more 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!. show lessTags
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Pretty good for the person who has discovered they have high cholesterol for the first time or those who want to prevent it in the first place.
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Carol Ann Rinzler is the author of numerous books including "Are You At Risk?"; "Feed a Cold, Starve a Fever"; & "The New Complete Book of Food" for Facts On File/Checkmark Books. She has also written "Nutrition for Dummies", as well as numerous magazine articles & columns on nutrition & diet. She is currently writing a weekly column on nutrition show more for the Sunday Daily News & lives in New York City. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 616.106 — Applied science & technology Medicine & health Diseases, Allergies, Skin Conditions Diseases of circulatory system
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- RC632 .H83 .R54 — Medicine Internal medicine Internal medicine Specialties of internal medicine Metabolic diseases
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