The latest ways to lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart disease Featuring more than 25 percent new and revised material, Controlling Cholesterol For Dummies, Second Edition provides easy-to-understand, practical guidelines to help readers get their cholesterol levels under control, and keep it that way.
The latest ways to lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart disease Featuring more than 25 percent new and revised material, Controlling Cholesterol For Dummies, Second Edition provides easy-to-understand, practical guidelines to help readers get their cholesterol levels under control, and keep it that way.
Carol Ann Rinzler has written more than 20 books on health and nutrition. Martin W. Graf, MD, has been a doctor of internal medicine for over 30 years.
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Introduction.
Part I: Getting Up Close and Personal withCholesterol.
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 aCholesterol-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 HighCholesterol.
Chapter 10: The Grape, the Grains, and Your Cholesterol.
Part IV: Cutting Cholesterol with Nutrients andMedicine.
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!" CholesterolMoments.
