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Controlling Cholesterol For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Controlling Cholesterol For Dummies, 2nd Edition


By Carol Ann Rinzler, Martin W. Graf, MD

ISBN: 978-0-470-22759-6
Format: Paper
Pages: 360 Pages
Pub. Date: April 2008

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Price: $21.99
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Introduction.

Part I: Getting Up Close and Personal with Cholesterol.

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 a Cholesterol-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 High Cholesterol.

Chapter 10: The Grape, the Grains, and Your Cholesterol.

Part IV: Cutting Cholesterol with Nutrients and Medicine.

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!” Cholesterol Moments.

Appendix: Calories and Other Nutrients in Food.

Index.

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