Title: Controlling cholesterol for dummies
Description: 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, 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!
Subjects: Health & Fitness, Low-cholesterol diet, Hypercholesterolemia, Adverse effects, Prevention & control, Nonfiction, Cholesterol, Popular Works, Hypercholesteremia, Dietary Cholesterol, Popular works, Blood cholesterol, Prevention, Blood, Diets & dieting, Popular medicine, Consumer Health, Health/Fitness, Diseases - Heart, Health & Fitness / General, General, Fitness & diet, Lipids, Treatment, Science, Life Sciences - Biochemistry, Heart diseases, Cardiology, Heart, diseases, Low-fat diet