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    Cholesterol: Cholesterol and Heart Disease: The most important information you need to improve your health
    Cholesterol: Cholesterol and Heart Disease: The most important information you need to improve your health
    Cholesterol: Cholesterol and Heart Disease: The most important information you need to improve your health
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    Cholesterol: Cholesterol and Heart Disease: The most important information you need to improve your health

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    Are you concerned about the potential health risks of high cholesterol? The Everything® Healthy Living Series is here to help. These concise, thoughtful guides offer the expert advice and the latest medical information you need to manage your cholesterol and lead a healthy life.

    Inside you’ll find useful information on the relationship between cholesterol and heart disease, potential risks factors, treatment, and tips on minimizing your risk. With the right guidance, potential complications from high cholesterol are avoidable.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster
    Release dateJun 1, 2012
    ISBN9781440547959
    Cholesterol: Cholesterol and Heart Disease: The most important information you need to improve your health
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    Adams Media

    At Adams Media, we don’t just publish books—we craft experiences that matter to you. Whether you’re diving deep into spirituality, whipping up delights in the kitchen, or planning your personal finances, our diverse range of lifestyle books, decks, journals, and more is designed to feed your curiosity. The Adams team strives to publish content that celebrates readers where they are—and where they’re going.

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      Book preview

      Cholesterol - Adams Media

      The Everything Healthy Living Series: Cholesterol: Cholesterol and Heart Disease cover

      The Everything® Healthy Living Series

      Cholesterol: Cholesterol and Heart Disease

      The most important information you need to improve your health

      Adams Media, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

      Avon, Massachusetts

      Contents

      Introduction

      What is Cholesterol?

      This Little Molecule

      Why Cholesterol Is Good

      When Good Cholesterol Turns Bad

      Cholesterol’s High Points

      Cholesterol’s Low Points

      Does the Total Really Matter?

      Triglycerides (TRGs)

      Frequently Asked Questions

      Cholesterol and Heart Disease

      What is Heart Disease?

      What Can Go Wrong with the Heart?

      What is a Stroke?

      What is Peripheral Arterial Disease?

      What’s Cholesterol Got to Do with It?

      You Have the Power to Improve Your Health

      It’s Not All about Cholesterol

      What Else Matters?

      What You Cannot Change

      What You Can Change

      Putting the Pieces Together

      Also Available

      Copyright Page

      Introduction

      For more than 10 years, millions of readers have trusted the bestselling Everything® series for expert advice and important information on health topics ranging from pregnancy and postpartum care to heart health, anxiety, and diabetes. Packed with the most recent, up-to-date data, Everything® health guides help you get the right diagnosis, choose the best doctor, and find the treatment options that work for you.

      The Everything® Healthy Living Series books are concise guides, focusing on only the essential information you need. Whether you’re looking for an overview of traditional and alternative migraine treatments, advice on starting a heart-healthy lifestyle, or suggestions for finding the right medical team, there’s an Everything® Healthy Living Book for you.

      Cholesterol

      You may have heard of cholesterol. You may have even heard that it is bad. Every day it seems a new article comes out about what cholesterol does or what affects cholesterol. Not many people, though, know the full story.

      Cholesterol over the years has earned a bad reputation. This reputation comes from cholesterol being known for decades to be a significant contributor to heart attacks, strokes, and other cardiovascular diseases. When people develop these debilitating and deadly diseases at a young age, cholesterol is often a factor. By understanding and managing cholesterol, you can avoid premature death and disability.

      Cholesterol in excess builds up in your arteries, the blood vessels that deliver oxygen and nutrients to your brain. When these arteries get too clogged, parts of your organs cannot receive what cells need to survive. If this happened in the blood vessels to your brain, you would suffer a stroke, or in the blood vessels to your heart, a heart attack. These diseases can leave you disabled, paralyzed, or even kill you.

      What you might not know is that you can recruit cholesterol to be on your side. There are different types of cholesterol; some clog arteries, but others clean up arteries. If you know how to lower the bad type and increase the good type, you can significantly prevent clogging or even unclog your arteries, reducing your chance of suffering heart attacks and strokes.

      To start to manage your cholesterol, you need to get tested beginning at a fairly young age. These tests require repeating every few years, and if you are higher-risk, you may need testing more often to determine the proper treatment. This knowledge will help to guide you as you implement changes in your life to improve your cholesterol.

      Cholesterol can be greatly influenced by your diet, physical activity, whether or not you smoke, your weight, and your levels of stress. By making certain changes in these areas, you can reduce your chance of early death and disability. Simple changes, such as eating fewer calories and bad fats in exchange for more fiber, nutrients, and good fats, can tremendously influence your cholesterol levels. Even a modest amount of physical activity a few days a week, no matter what the activity, can have a huge impact. Not smoking and reducing stress can reduce your bad cholesterol and raise your good cholesterol.

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