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Controlling cholesterol for dummies
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From the Book - 2nd ed.
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.
From the Book
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.
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Subjects
Subjects
Arteriosclerosis
Arteriosclerosis -- Prevention
Blood cholesterol
Cholesterol
Cholesterol -- Popular works
Cookbooks
Hypercholesteremia
Hypercholesteremia -- Prevention
Lipids in human nutrition
Low-cholesterol diet
Low-cholesterol diet -- Recipes
Myocardial infarction
Myocardial infarction -- Prevention
Prevention
Arteriosclerosis -- Prevention
Blood cholesterol
Cholesterol
Cholesterol -- Popular works
Cookbooks
Hypercholesteremia
Hypercholesteremia -- Prevention
Lipids in human nutrition
Low-cholesterol diet
Low-cholesterol diet -- Recipes
Myocardial infarction
Myocardial infarction -- Prevention
Prevention
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9780764554407
9780470227596
9780470227596
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