Controlling Cholesterol For Dummies

5 Comments

1. Lydia Wyatt says:

   March 7, 2010 at 1:23 AM

   This is a book which thoroughly explores cholesterol. While user-friendly like all of the Dummies series, it is also written with grace and insight. I have found the book interesting and useful. I have completely stopped caffeine beverages, like coffee. After eliminating my coffee habit with the help of a wonderful coffee substitute made from soya beans called “Soyffee”, I’m feeling so much better. My doctor recommended it to help lower my cholesterol and promote strong bones. It’s available online at www. So y c o f fe e. com to find it.
   Rating: 3 / 5
2. G. Pillars says:

   March 7, 2010 at 1:49 AM

   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.
   Rating: 3 / 5
3. Ivan P. Baotic says:

   March 7, 2010 at 4:20 AM

   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.
   Rating: 4 / 5
4. Martha says:

   March 7, 2010 at 4:21 AM

   This book has been a great help in explaining how to control cholesterol by what we eat.
   Rating: 5 / 5
5. Blaine Greenfield says:

   March 7, 2010 at 6:50 AM

   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.
   Rating: 5 / 5