Controlling Cholesterol for Dummies |
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Author:
Carol Ann Rinzler,
Martin W., MD Graf
By For Dummies
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"Must reading for everyone who plans to live a long and healthy life."
—Barbara Seaman, Health Watch columnist Features strategies to achieve and maintain healthy cholesterol levels Discover how easy it is to manage your cholesterol and improve your health Need to get your cholesterol in check? This easy-to-follow guide is packed with effective solutions for controlling cholesterol levels, from following a low-fat diet to choosing an exercise regimen. You’ll discover the difference between "good" and "bad" cholesterol, how to rate your risk of heart disease, and ways to cut cholesterol through prescription medications, vitamins, and supplements. The Dummies Way - Explanations in plain English
- "Get in, get out" information
- Icons and other navigational aids
- Tear-out cheat sheet
- Top ten lists
- A dash of humor and fun
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Informative guide for those needing to know more about cholesterol, 2008-10-23
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, 2007-09-26
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, 2007-08-16
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.
Boring read, good information, 2007-04-20
The title says it all. I tried to read from cover to cover but it's just boring. So I jumped around, which be design works great that way, got the information I needed, and moved on with my life.
Helpful guidlines, 2006-11-11
This book is full of helpfull information. It is fairly uptodate concidering they keep lowering the recommended cholesterol levels every year. Its not to hard ro read. The terms and explanations are easly understood.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.136
EAN: 9780764554407
ISBN: 0764554409
Label: For Dummies
Manufacturer: For Dummies
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 360
Publication Date: 2002-09-19
Publisher: For Dummies
Studio: For Dummies |
