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If you’ve tried and failed to lower your cholesterol, this book is for you!. .
An estimated 100 million American adults have high cholesterol, a condition that increases the risk of coronary artery disease, heart attack, and stroke. “50 Ways to Lower Your Cholesterol” offers 50 expert, practical tips you can use to keep this potentially life-threatening condition at bay, including: . . Dietary changes . Nutritional supplements . Effective exercises . Lifestyle changes . Other medical options and more . .
If you’re dealing with high cholesterol, you know what a challenge it can be to keep your levels under control and your body working at its best. Use “50 Ways to Lower Your Cholesterol” to meet that challenge and live a long, healthy life!

Mary P. McGowan, M.D., is an assistant professor of medicine in the division of cardiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. Currently president of the Northeast Cholesterol Foundation, Dr. McGowan has authored numerous articles on preventive cardiology and has been a medical consultant for NBC’s “Today.”

Jo McGowan Chopra is the director of Karuna Vihar, a school for children with mental and physical handicaps in Dehra Doon, India. She is also a freelance writer. Her articles have appeared in Newsweek and Span, as well as all the major daily newspapers in India. She is a regular columnist for Commonweal.

McGowan and Chopra are also coauthors of Heart Fitness for Life (Oxford University Press, 1997)and The Hypertension Sourcebook(Contemporary Books, 2001).

Everybody knows that high cholesterol is something to be concerned about. But what does it really mean when your doctor tells you that your cholesterol levels are high, and what should you do about it? If you’re worried about your cholesterol, here’s your chance to get the answers you need from a top expert at the Harvard Medical School.

This book doesn’t just cover cholesterol, but heart health in general. It starts with what cholesterol is and how your body manufactures it and the mechanics of heart disease, then moves on to risk factors and what will happen when you visit your doctor about this. Then it goes to how to lower your cholesterol and, thus, your heart disease risk. Diet, exercise, medications. He includes special cases- children with high cholesterol, seniors, people with established heart disease and diabetics. He gives a chapter to alternative and complementary approaches- and doesn’t think much of any of them.

It’s a very thorough book- the explanation of heart disease is very good. High cholesterol is not a problem on its own- it’s the things it does to the arteries, and it works by several different mechanisms. Of course, even though the book is only five years old, the results of some of the studies he cites have been overturned by newer ones, but for the most part, it’s a good, solid book.

An easy-to-follow, medically proven plan to lower cholesterol.
Cardiologist Joseph Lee Klapper, M.D., gives an in-depth yet accessible explanation of cholesterol levels — and explores ways to lower them. Weighing the pros and cons of a variety of approaches, including a holistic approach, Western medications, natural remedies, and new methods on the horizon, he then takes you step-by-step through a medically proven plan for shedding cholesterol points.

-By 2010, the leading cuase of death worldwide will be heart disease, far greater than infections, AIDS, and other killers
-Explores many contemporary heart-smart diets and provides sample menus
-Important information about exercise, risk factors, statins and other Western cholesterol lowering medications; herbs, supplements, and natural remedies; and antioxidants, gene therapy, and new drugs

This updated edition includes contemporary health research, advice and information for preventing heart disease, plus “guaranteed” strategies to reduce cholesterol levels naturally. High cholesterol is recognized as a major risk factor for heart disease – but it is also one of the most manageable health problems. “The New 8 Week Cholesterol Cure” is easy to read and provides readers with a no-nonsense guide to the key health advice, as well as a wide range of cholesterol-lowering recipes so readers can put advice into practice. Features of the book include: explanation of the lipid profile – the different sorts of cholesterol – and how to avoid the worst offenders; presentation of the new supplements – with honest advice about which ones should be taken, regardless of how a diet might be; and the low-down on what’s smart for the heart – and what’s pure hype including aspirin, garlic, red wine and soy.

In his search of the medical and scientific literature for an explanation for his own statin associated transient global amnesia this former astronaut and retired family doctor reveals to his readers the critical importance of cholesterol for proper brain function and memory and the reasons for the damage statin drugs do to our muscles, nerves and heart and even our personalities.

This book, by a highly qualified MD and scientist, is timely considering the fact that statins are being promoted heavily for ever more people.

This book must be regarded as essential reading by all who prescribe statins, by all who take statins and by all who are advised to take statins.