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When your cholesterol levels reach a peak level you peril become at risk for heart attacks, stroke, and other sickness caused by clogged arteries. When high levels of LDL cholesterol stick to the walls of your arteries, your risk of clotting increases. It is your responsibility to make sure you may keep the level of this cholesterol down. I know, I love eating burgers, bacon, and pork chops, but it up to all of us to sacrifice the feed we love in order to live a long, productive, and healthful life into our older years. LDL, or so called “bad cholesterol” is the substance in your body that transports fat to the rest of the body. In reality, LDL is genuinely a necessary part of healthful humane function. There are a heap of new proficiencies and other tools you may use to keep your LDL cholesterol levels low. How to lower LDL cholesterol: 1. Drink Alcohol Surprisingly enough, drinking an alcoholic beverage each day not only reduces the levels of LDL in your body, it likewise increments the levels of the good HDL cholesterol. The good cholesterol is responsible for removing excess fat from the body by the way. So, if you are one of those persons who never touch alchohol, now is the time to go to the local liquor store and buy a bottle of wine. Don’t drink too much though, studies show that drinking more than 3 servings (15 ounces) of wine per day may actually INCREASE your cholesterol levels. Have you ever read when it comes to the typical French breakfast? They eat a heart fatty meal each morning. It is the most necessary meal of the day. In America, the person who eats this kind of breakfast has a massive heart attack at the age of 50. The strange portion of the story is that the French have a low occurrence of heart disease where in America it is the greatest cause of early death. Take a lesson from the French and drink a glass of wine per day. 2. Start Exercising This seems like evident advice, but the truth is by forcing your heart to pump blood through your vains you do two things. First, your increasing the size of your blood vessels. In moderation, 20 to 30 minutes a day of exercise with an increased heart rate will increase the health of your heart, blood vessels, and other organs. Not to mention, helping you lose weight in the process. Second, you will in truth be letting down the levels of LDL in the body. Studies show that exercise actually reduces LDL. So, get up and get moving to lower cholesterol! 3. Secret Cholesterol Lowering Foods Are you eating your fruits, veggies, and nuts? Did you recognise some of these contained a special ingredient known as sterols. Plants and people are built different. Plants are built with these sterols surrounding their membranes. We can’t invent this ourselves so we need it from feed like broccoli, apples, and peanuts. Guess what they do? Lower LDL cholesterol. It’s simple, eat a great deal of fruits, veggies, and nuts and you will begin seeing a difference. Unfortunately, persons who often eat out at fast feed places lack the necessary amount necessitated for a healthful diet. This is what normally tips the scale and causes a good deal of humans to reach high levels of cholesterol. In the next mystery I will instruct you in regards to something important, but for now I’m going to tell you to eat foods high in antioxidants. Keep reading to learn what this is all about. 4. Don’t Smoke or Breath Any Second Hand Do you recognise what causes heart attacks? It’s a sticky substance called plaque. Do you know where it comes from? It is the oxidized or broken down version of cholesterol and fat. How does cholesterol break down? When we get older our bodies occasionally run wild with free radicals. These free radicals arise naturally or unnaturally thanks to cigarettes, pollution, radiation, and other destructive things. When we were young we could without apparent effort fight these guys off, but now we need help from antioxidants. An antioxidant, in simplest terms is a vitamin, enzyme, or other nutrient that neutralizes free radicals. Trust me though, you don’t want to be aiding free radicals. You can’t just take antioxidants and think you may smoke, the body can’t take so much action and the procedure is never perfect. So what does this have to do with the question, “how to lower LDL cholesterol”? If you stop smoking (including second hand if you don’t smoke) you will with great success redice LDL cholesterol by preventing 5. Take a Natural Cholesterol Lowering Supplement Remember when I spoke in regards to plant sterols before? Well, the truth is that it is very difficult to get sufficient of the material from feed alone. Doctors suggest that you must include a cholesterol letting down supplement in your diet. These supplements ordinarily incorporate plant sterols and have the capacity to raise good cholesterol and lower bad. |
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67 of 68 people found the following review helpful.
A great, practical guide for lowering cholesterol. Worked for this MD!
By big farm
This is truly and excellent book. A well-written, practical guide for lowering your cholesterol.
I am an MD and my cholesterol “before” was TOTAL: 278, LDL 188, HDL 36, TRIGS. 221. I followed his program, and after just under the 8 weeks, TOTAL 204, LDL 119, HDL 50, TRIGS 147.
Most of what he says makes lots of sense and is backed up by lots of good, solid, medical eveidence. Honestly, I was skeptical of some of what he said, and pulled up the primary journal references, and reviewed, and the evidence was indeed quite good. THIS IS ESPECIALLY TRUE REGARDING NIACIN IN GENERAL AND ENDURACIN IN PARTICULAR!!! Don’t miss that last point. This really could save your life and obviate need for statins and other things, which are not necessarily medically evil as some seem to think, but are really not the best for most, as Kowalski points out. BUT, I do think he under-plays the fact that statins probably are best for those with very high LDL, especially, if they cannot reach target LDL level with niacin—but niaicin could help need less statin.
Now, why not 5 stars? 1) Despite being based on good solid evidence, his book is till a bit too anecdotal “me” “the docs I’ve spoken with”, etc.
2) Some things he says are scientifcally a bit suspect—”I’ve only heard thousands of satisfied people over 20 years”—well that itself is what we call reporting bias—those who tried and failed or had other complaints are very unlikely to write to the author unless they have a real axe to grind. So I would not go in thinking this has a 100% success rate!
Similarly he keeps saying things around studies like ” those who started with the highest levels had the biggest changes.” We call this “regressiion to the mean”. It means that a drug that tends to normalize things will necessarily make a bigger jump for those who are worse off to start. So the drug really is doing the same thing no matter where you are staring from.
3) Enduracin is dirt cheap. But if you start using everything else he suggests as little adjuncts, it really starts to get expensive for the poor or middle class. For example, if you take the Endur phytosterols with every meal, or the Profibe fiber he suggests 3 times daily, and the Pantesin, you’ve just added about $75 per month. Now that is rough, because I DO think those things help, especially to get a bit more LDL lowering, on top of the Enduracin. But he needs to address teh cost issue head on.
OVERALL: Get the book, discuss with your doc. Try it. If your doc won’t give you the 4-6 mos. to try this, fire him!!! Really…because this really could save your life in a very well-tolerated way. But as always, keep up a bit of healthy skepticism 
52 of 54 people found the following review helpful.
Detailed, comprehensive and accurate
By Martin C. Martin
This is a great book for those who want all the details on how to proect your heart, against cholesterol and other heart disease risk factors. The author is trained in both journalism and science, and after suffering one heart attack and thinking about leaving his kids fatherless, he “got religion.” He now reads all the medical research on heart health, distilling it down and explaining it to the lay reader. He has the right attitude, only trusting studies that have good methodology and have been replicated.
He considers diet, including fruits and vegetables, fats, meats, soluble fiber and alcohol. He goes over the research on antioxidents and other supplements, including the vitamin that works better than prescription drugs: niacin. He also covers stress and exercise.
Heart disease is completely preventable. If you have high cholesterol or other risk factors, this book will set you straight on what works and what doesn’t. My doctor agrees with the parts he’s read, and the information here is in agreement with other sources like the American Heart Association website and webmd.com.
If what you want is an owners manual for your heart, a book length treatment that mentions all the important studies and their results, then this book is for you. For me and my nurse mother-in-law, this is the bible on heart health.
40 of 41 people found the following review helpful.If you only buy one health book, this should be it!
By T. Ussery
If you want to quickly and easily be able to speak with your doctor about heart disease on a PEER-TO-PEER basis, buy this book. You are looking at the only review I have ever written about anything. I am writing this after reading the very negative reveiw left by Gadgester. I do not know what “Top 50 Reviewer” means, but it sounds important. However, His/Her statements are so opposite of what is in this book, I did not what else to do, other than to write this. The book is purely scientific and presents the findings and shortcomings of virtually every medical study performed on heart disease in the past five decades. The Bibliography of the medical studies discussed in the book is 14 pages long! The information is presented in easy understandable and organized fashion. Proof positive – by following the guidelines of this book (actually it is the guidelines set forth by the hundreds of medical studies referenced, I reduced my cholesterol from the high risk category to the low risk category in four months and established habits that will keep it low for the rest of my life. The only problem is this books title – “8-Week Cholesterol Cure” makes it sound too fadish. This book is pure gold.
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Don’t buy this one – there is a newer version
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
Robert Kowalski has a new updated version, called “The New 8-Week Cholesterol Cure”
I lowered my colesteral by 70 points!!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I did not believe that a small diet change and oat bran muffins would bring my colesteral down, but after 10 weeks it went from 260 down to 191. I only took 1g of the enduracin vitamin B that the author recomends but ate lots of muffins.
I got my results yesterday and it works!!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I saw all these reviews back in November as I desperately looked for some help to lower my cholesterol through diet…and took a chance on this book and it works. I started in mid November and had my cholesterol checked again at the beginning of March and it dropped from 267 to 204! I certainly followed the book, and made a batch of oatbran muffins each week…but also cooked from standard low cholesterol cook books, and had 1 day a week where I could treat myself to my favorite things that weren’t part of the diet. I never tried the pills he mentioned…I don’t like to take pills. I certainly recommend this book to anyone trying to lower their cholesterol!!!
Too old
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
This book was published in 1987. It is out of date, and for the most part, useless. The cholesterol drug he talks about has been supplanted by many newer and better drugs. The dietary suggestions are okay, but nothing new. Some recipes in the back are okay. All in all – don’t buy it.
Not even worth a star
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
I would not recommend this book to my enemy! It’s very wordy and it takes alot of reading to get any useful information from it. I don’t have time for useless information.
How to Lower Your Blood Cholesterol
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure: How to Lower Your Blood Cholesterol by Up to 40 Percent Without Drugs or Deprivation by Robert E Kowalski and Albert A Kattus has lot of information on one of the most dangerous diseases our times. The beauty is they are treating this condition without any medicine and their program works excellently. They also give you some recipes which are very effective. All you have to do is to make some changes to your life style, exercises and stick to them. It will help you to maintain your blood cholesterol at the desired level.
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Straightforward and effective
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This guide provides you with a good understanding of the relationship between good health and your cholesterol score and how this score is calculataed. The recipes and meal plans are easy to follow and bring great results. My husband used this as a guide to bring down his cholesterol in only 6 weeks while losing eight pounds!
I highly recommend this plan.
319 to 250 in 11 weeks
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
The diet works. I followed it to a T and dropped my cholesterol over 20% in the first 11 weeks. I am beaming with confidence that the next 12 weeks will get me to the level where the disease process stops! 200 or below!
This book may have saved my life!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
IN 1983 my cholesterol was about 280 and I tried and tried but could find no way to reduce it. Diet, eating carbon, etc., had no impact. I could imagine the arteries filling up with plaque, day by day.
Then I read Kowalski’s book and also learned that the enduracin niacin was sold about 10 miles from where I lived.
I’ve been on it ever since and my cholesterol levels have been excellent. (High levels of high-density and low levels of low-density.) The skin flushing was trivial and of short duration — about 10 minutes. I no longer have it, even though I am on immediate release, 2 grams a day. I take one gram in the morning and one gram in the evening — when I brush my teeth.
About a year ago I had to start the immediate release form of Enduracin(because of slight liver function abnormalities).
But Kowalski and Enduracin both may well have saved my life, and at a low financial cost.
I intend to continue controlling my cholesterol with it for the rest of my life.
Caleb Burns
OK–want to see numbers?
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I got this book after my doctor had threatened toput me on statins because my cholesterol had been 250+ for over a year. I saw the book and figured since it had been out for a while I could verify the claims on the Internet. It checked out so I followed the recommendations. Want numbers? On 2/20/01 I had my cholesterol checked. Total Cholesterol 256, LDL (bad) 185, HDL (good) 38, triglycerides 167. FIVE WEEKS LATER I went back on 3/31/01 because I had the flu and wanted to make sure I wasn’t getting pneumonia or something and asked them to run the test again. Total Cholesterol 149, LDL (bad) 87, HDL (good) 52, triglycerides 52. Since then I HAVE been working with my doctor and I HAVE been getting the liver function tests recommended. Later I lowered the amount of niacin some and continued following the recommendations. From 5/24/03: Total Cholesterol 167, LDL (bad) 104, HDL (good) 47, triglycerides 79. I’ve let several friends read the book and all but one have seen big changes. I understand there is a newer book out there, but this one solved the problem for me.
Easy Method For Lowering Your Cholesterol
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I bought this book because my partner has high cholesterol and I love it! It has very clear, easy instructions for what you need to do. There are many different books on the market that can help lower cholesterol, but they either a) go on and on without going straight to what you need to know or b) the recipies they recommend are either difficult to make or simply don’t taste good. That leads me to the main reason to buy this book – the recipies. They taste great and are easy to make with only a few ingredients in each one. I cook quite a bit and have found that when you try to cook healthy, the food can sometimes be cumbersome to prepare. No so with most of these recipies – with the help of a food processor, most of these meals can be made in under half an hour….
Worked for My Husband
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I got the original edition of this book after my husband’s heart attack and bypass more than 10 years ago, in order try to keep his cholesterol at reduced level. He didn’t use the niacin, but I have been making oat bran muffins for him regularly since his surgery, and we’ve both been using the phytosterol tablets Kowalski recommends for some time. I can say that for my husband, at least, it works and he’s been able to eat pretty normally and still keep his cholesterol level down to the satisfaction of his doctor.
It works
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
A dozen years or so ago, my cholesterol was skyrocketing, well above an already too-high typical level for me. I read this book, followed it with care except that I took (with doctor’s ok) only 500 mg. of niacin daily, NOT the much larger and much riskier doses advocated by Kowalski. In less than two months my total cholesterol dropped by 112 points, to the edge of the normal range, and it kept on dropping after that, even after I relaxed my very strict eating habits. Triglycerides also dropped sharply. But I was doing EVERYTHING right — strict adherence to low-fat (*VERY* low saturated fat), cholesterol-free eating habits, high in fiber, including oat bran, plus significant daily exercise (escalated to 90 minutes a day on stair-climber/rower — which is a LOT of aerobic exercise, and way more than I have the patience for now). All of it. When I slacked off the regimen some time later, the cholesterol did rise, but not as high as formerly. Kowalski is very big on oat bran, and that turns out to be the easy part because it is a pleasant hot cereal. A half cup of oat bran, some raisins or chopped dates, one cup of water, stir, heat in microwave oven on high (use a large enough bowl to avoid boiling over) for 2 minutes and 45 seconds. Stir, add some skim milk if you like. Very tasty. At worst it is a nice hot breakfast, and at best may actually contribute significantly to lower cholesterol. (You can also bake oat bran into muffins. A bit dry, but not bad. Kowalski offers a recipe.) You can search the Web for my little paper on “Fitness in One Lesson,” which comments further on helpful ideas in this vein. In any event, my doctor at that time told me that “there is no such thing as an eight week cholesterol cure” when I told him I was reading and following the book. After I had dropped my cholesterol level by more than a third in 7 weeks, I found a new doctor. (There were other issues with him anyway.) But his point really was valid: this is not a one-time fix. You have to make permanent improvements in eating and exercise habits. That is why “diets” are a bad idea. Like vacations, “diets” are temporary. Proper eating and exercise should be forever. Kowalski provides a clearly written, inspirational, informative guide to valuable steps to take. Discuss it with your doctor.
excellent
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
With this book, I lowered my cholesterol from 265 to 196 in 8 weeks….and lost 15 lbs. and maintained it. My doctor couldn’t believe the results and now recommends it to other patients.
It Truly Works
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This cholesterol cure truly works. I can attest to it. My cholesterol is now in line with what it should be and I had my
brother on it and now his is in line also.