Getting up close and personal with cholesterol

Eating your way to lower cholesterol

Leading a cholesterol-lowering lifestyle

Cutting cholesterol with nutrients and medicine

The part of tens.

Foolish Assumptions

What You're Not to Read

Getting Up Close and Personal with Cholesterol

Explaining What's Paining Your Arteries

Shaking Hands with Your Heart

Reaching the Point of This Book

Looking at Cholesterol from Both Sides

Shaking Hands with Cholesterol

Spreading the Good News: Cholesterol and ...

Breaking the Bad News: Cholesterol and ...

Focusing on other Blood Baddies

Warning! Heart Attack in Progress!

Rating Your Cholesterol Risk

Chancing It for Daily Doughnuts

Making Tracks: Counting Your Cholesterol

Playing Limbo: Higher, Lower, Medium

Playing Risk

Digging into Your Cholesterol File

Reviewing Heart-Attack Risk Factors at a Glance

Checking for Plaque Buildup

Calculating Your Heart-Attack Risk

Eating Your Way to Lower Cholesterol

Writing Rules for a Cholesterol-Lowering Diet

Creating the Guidelines Back When the Earth Cooled

Doing the Low, Controlled, Two-Step

Building a Cholesterol-Lowering Diet

Drawing Xs and Os: Making Your Game Plan

Choosing the Fat with the Right Fit

Fawning over Fiber

You Know the Deal: Everything in Moderation

Rating the Cholesterol-Lowering Impact of Brand-Name Diets

Weighing in on Cholesterol

Taking It Off: The under 20 Percent Solution

Meeting the Moderate Middle: The 20 Percent Solution

Moving into More Lenient Lifestyles: The 30 Percent Solution

Swimming Upstream to Shed Pounds

Fighting Fat and Cholesterol with Fad Diets

Clicking with a Diet

Leading a Cholesterol-Lowering Lifestyle

Tipping the Scales

Weighing Weight's Weight on Cholesterol

Figuring Out Who's Fat

Making Lifestyle Changes

Fulfilling Your Wildest Dreams: Tossing the Scale Out the Window

Pulling on the Leg Warmers and Feeling the Burn

Sweating the Definition: Exercise

Pairing Exercise and

Riding the Stationary Bike into the Sunset

Puffing Up Your Cholesterol

Drawing in Heart Disease

Burning Up the Cholesterol Charts

Getting a Bad Deal on Second Hand Smoke

Knowing Your Demographics

Breaking the Habit

The Grape, the Grains, and Your Cholesterol

Toasting to Your Heart

Balancing Risks and Benefits

Claiming Booze as a Food Group

Cutting Cholesterol with Nutrients and Medicine

Vitamins, Minerals, and Other Good Stuff

Identifying Supplements

Popping a Vitamin Pill May Help Lower Cholesterol

Fighting Cholesterol with Dietary Fiber

Going out on a Limb with Plants

Prescribing Lower Cholesterol

Knowing Whether You're a Pill Person

Beating the Bile: Bile Acid Sequestrants

Trouncing the Tris: Triglyceride Inhibitors

Hitting the Source: HMG-CoA Reductase Inhibitors

Listing Unusual and/or Surprising Cholesterol-Linked Side Effects of Products Not Necessarily Used to Control Cholesterol

Ditching Dangerous Drugs

Good Drugs Gone Bad

Sabotaging Cholesterol Therapy

Narrowing Your Options

The Part of Tens

Ten Important Cholesterol Web Sites

National Cholesterol Education Program Guidelines

The American Heart Association

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

The Mayo Clinic

MedicineNet.com

HeartPoint

University of Delaware Cooperative Extension

Center for Drug Evaluation and Research

Brand Name Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs

WebMD

Ten Nutrition Web Sites

Tufts University Nutrition Navigator

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Nutrient Database

The American Heart Association

The American Dietetic Association

Food and Nutrition Information Center

The Food and Drug Administration

The Special Nutritionals Adverse Event Monitoring System

The Food Allergy Network

The Weight Control Information Network

American Council on Science and Health and the Center for Science in the Public Interest

Ten Cholesterol Myths

Most of the Cholesterol in Your Body Comes from Food

All Fatty Foods Raise Your Cholesterol

Women Never Have to Worry about Their Cholesterol

Children Have No Cholesterol Problems

Eating More Dietary Fiber Lowers Blood Cholesterol

Cholesterol is the Only Thing that Leads to Plaque in Your Arteries

Red Meat Has More Cholesterol than Chicken or Turkey

Taking Vitamins Lowers Your Cholesterol

A Heart Attack is the Only Health Risk Associated with High Cholesterol

Changing Your Diet Is the Only Way to Control Your Cholesterol

You Can Never Be Too Rich or Too Thin and Your Cholesterol Can Never Be Too Low

Ten Landmarks in Cholesterol History

1957: The Prudent Diet

1958: Introducing Cholesterol Busters

1971: Naming Cholesterol an Official Risk Factor for Heart Attack

1971: MRFIT Gets Going

1984: Indicting Hypercholesterolemia

1985: Recognizing the Risk from LDLs

1985-1987: Establishing the National Cholesterol Education Program

1986: Unveiling Statins

1988, 1993, 2001: ATP I, ATP II, ATP III

2001: Baycol Bombs

Ten Foods to Avoid

Liver

Butter

Margarine with Trans Fatty Acids

Poultry Skin and Dark Meat

Lamb

Frankfurter

Whole-Milk Products

Coconut

Unfiltered Coffee

Eggs

Ten Foods That Help Lower Cholesterol

Stanol or Sterol Margarines

Oatmeal

Brown Rice

Apples

Grapes

Beans

Onions and Garlic

Bison

Chocolate.