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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!

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 10 reviews)

Fairly interesting by Yvonne Cole

2 Stars
September 23, 2009
This book would be good for someone who knows nothing about cholesterol. It goes into great length to explain the physical side. I mainly wanted to know which foods to eat or not eat and some lo-cholesterol recipes. Not there.

controlling cholesterol for dummies by Martha (Missouri, USA)

5 Stars
May 16, 2009
This book has been a great help in explaining how to control cholesterol by what we eat.

Informative guide for those needing to know more about cholesterol by Blaine Greenfield (Belle Meade, NJ)

5 Stars
October 23, 2008
When my cholesterol levels went sky high, I started a proactive approach to do all that I could to lower them . . . one thing I've been doing is to read all I can about the subject, including CONTROLLING CHOLESTEROL FOR DUMMIES (2nd ed.) by Carol Ann Rinzler. This informative guide contained all the information I wanted to know about the subject--and then some . . . I could have done without some of the material that was surprisingly technical, and 53 pages at the end about calories and other nutrients in food were about 52 too many for me. Yet that's not to say that much else of the rest of the information made it a most worthwhile book for me to have read . . . I learned, for instance, about something called BMI or body mass index: * BMI is a unisex measure of weight relative to height, a number--such as 24--that serves as a predictor of your risk for weight-related illnesses, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, gallbladder disease, and arthritic pain. The higher your number, the higher your risk . . . The equation looks like this: BMI = (weight in pounds/height in inches x height in inches) x 705 To get your own BMI, plug your numbers into the BMI equation. For example, if you're 5' 3" tall and weight 138 pounds, the result is 24.5. Its significance lies in the fact that after you do the computation, you can effectively use it to view the various categories of BMI (and what they mean): Underweight: BMI lower than 18.5. Normal: BMI of 25 to 29.9 (A moderate risk of weight-related health problems.) Overweight: BMI of 25 to 29.9. (A moderate risk of weight-related health problems. For reference, BMI of 25 is about 10 percent over ideal body weight.) Obese: BMI of 30 to 39.9. (High risk of weight-related health problems.) Extremely obese: BMI over 40. (The highest risk of weight-related health problems.) I also learned more about such foods that I used to like; e.g., coconut: * Yes, trying to knock open a fresh coconut uses up calories. Yes, coconut meat is high in dietary fiber, and like other nuts, it's a good source of B vitamins. Yes, a single 2-inch square piece of fresh coconut meat has 1.09 mg of iron (7.3 percent of the recommended daily allowance for a woman of child-bearing age), and 0.49 mg of zinc (3.3 percent of the recommended daily allowance for a man, 4 percent of the recommended daily allowance for a woman). And of course, the coconut, being a plant, has no cholesterol. Can you sense a "but" coming here? Right you are. But that same 2-inch square piece of coconut contains 15 g of coconut oil, the fat that accounts for 85 percent of the calories in coconut meat. Coconut oil is 89 percent saturated fatty acids, which makes it an even more highly saturated fat than butter. Yet there was also good news, such as this tidbit: * But don't forget the chocolate or at least the very special new chocolate from Canada. In the summer of 2007, Ocean Nutrition Canada Limited, a company that makes and distributes omega-3 food and dietary supplement ingredients, announced that the 0 Trois line of chocolate bars and "fingers" from Les Truffles au Chocolat, would henceforth contain omega-3 fatty acids. Who can ask for anything more? Do read CONTROLLING CHOLESTEROL if you or any family member of friend has to deal with this problem . . . you may not become the word's greatest expert on the subject, but you will learn enough so as to be able to reduce cholesterol limits without going on any sort of crazy diet.

confusing cholesterol by G. Pillars (NC)

3 Stars
September 26, 2007
Having to recently begin watching my cholesterol I purchased this book as I thought it would be the easiest and quickest book to help me understand eating and cookiing. However, I found it more confusing than anything else and very similar to any other book as far as technical information, though, it tried to be "cute" a lot. I would have been interested in sample menus and clearly posted lists showing foods to avoid etc. The chapters on 10 foods to avoid and 10 foods to include were interesting but not enough and too much information and disclaimers throughout the book.

attacking cholesterol by M. Lubrano (Westminster, CA United States)

5 Stars
August 16, 2007
This is a great reference book for those of us fighting the dreaded cholesterol monster. I can say no more than that it is worth the money and a must have.

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