Carol Ann Rinzler - Böcker

The latest ways to lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart diseaseNeed to get your cholesterol in check? You’ll find the latest information about cholesterol, including treatments, drug information, and dietary advice, in Controlling Cholesterol For Dummies, 2nd Edition, an easy-to-understand guide to cholesterol control. You’ll learn how to lower your numbers and maintain healthy cholesterol levels. You’ll also find out how to eat and exercise properly, use vitamins and supplements, and quit unhealthy habits. You’ll find out cholesterol’s positive functions and why too much can be a bad thing. You can also assess your cholesterol risk by taking your age, sex, ethnicity, and family history into consideration. Find out what you need to ask your doctor about stress tests, ECBT, and angiograms to check for plaque buildup. Design a cholesterol-crushing diet and understand which foods can help you lower your numbers. Find out how smoking, alcohol, exercise, excess weight, supplements, and prescription medications affect your cholesterol levels. Find out how to: Assess your cholesterol riskUnderstand the benefits and risks associated with cholesterolDesign and adhere to a cholesterol-lowering dietAvoid dangerous drugsReduce your risk of heart attackChoose fats and fibers correctlyCheck for plaque buildupComplete with lists of ten important cholesterol websites, ten nutrition websites, ten cholesterol myths, ten landmarks in cholesterol history, ten foods that raise your cholesterol, and ten foods that lower your cholesterol, Controlling Cholesterol For Dummies, 2nd Edition will help keep your cholesterol levels under control for good!

In this fully updated second edition, expert dieticians Sue Baic and Nigel Denby provide no-nonsense advice, equipping you with all the information you need to make informed decisions about your diet. The book acts as a sound reference point if you want to know the facts about food, and debunks the myths behind fad diets.  Nutrition For Dummies, 2nd Edition provides a detailed understanding of the nutritional breakdown of different food groups and examines the relationship food has with one's physical and mental wellbeing. The book also advises you on how to establish healthy eating patterns and how to maximise the health benefits of what you eat.  This new edition includes approx 20% new and updated material, including new chapters on nutrition in institutions and how to eat healthily on the go.  New content also includes up-to-date health guidelines and government policies, information on probiotics and over the counter weight loss drugs, plus advice on how to eat well on a budget.Nutrition For Dummies, 2nd Edition includes:Part I: The Basic Facts about NutritionChapter 1: What's Nutrition, Anyway?Chapter 2: Digestion: The 24-Hour Food FactoryChapter 3: Why You Eat What You Eat and Like What You LikePart II: What You Get from FoodChapter 4: Powerful ProteinChapter 5: The Lowdown on Fat and CholesterolChapter 6: Calories: The EnergisersChapter 7: Carbohydrates: A Complex StoryChapter 8: The Alcohol Truth: The Whole TruthChapter 9: Vigorous VitaminsChapter 10: Mighty MineralsChapter 11: Phabulous PhytochemicalsChapter 12: Water WorksPart III: Healthy EatingChapter 13: What Is a Healthy Diet?Chapter 14: Making Wise Food ChoicesChapter 15 : Ensuring Good Nutrition Whoever You AreNEW! Chapter 16: Eating in InstitutionsNEW! Chapter 17: Being Nutritionally Savvy on the GoPart IV: Processed FoodChapter 18: What Is Processed Food?Chapter 19: Cooking and Keeping FoodChapter 20: Weird Science: Examining Food AdditivesPart V: Food and HealthChapter 21: Food and AllergiesChapter 22: Food and MoodChapter 23: Food and MedicineChapter 24: Food and Dietary Supplements Part VI: The Part of TensChapter 25: Ten Nutrition Web Sites You Can TrustChapter 26: Ten SuperfoodsChapter 27: Ten Fad Diets: The Truth Behind the Headlines

If you or someone you love suffers from heartburn, you know that it can be very disruptive to your daily life. Most heartburn sufferers say it stops them from enjoying food. Others say it keeps them from getting a good night’s sleep, it makes it hard to concentrate at work, and it interferes with family activities. Sound familiar? Don’t worry. Heartburn is a pain, but it can be helped. Heartburn & Reflux For Dummies is the plain-English guide to relief for you if you’ve been recently diagnosed with heartburn or reflux, if you suspect you may suffer from it, or if you’re concerned about your loved ones. This comprehensive book shows you how to recognize symptoms, get an accurate diagnosis, and work with a physician to receive the most effective treatment available. You’ll see how to: Get your symptoms under controlFind the right physicianReduce stress and fine-tune your dietAvoid medicines that trigger upsetDecide if surgery is right for youThis friendly guide explains what the various forms of reflux are, as all too often reflux is either self-treated or mistreated and followed by serious complications. There’s detailed information on building a comfortable lifestyle by reducing stress, improving your diet, controlling portions, and timing your meals to minimize heartburn and reflux. Plus, this sensitive guide even covers heartburn in infants, children, and the elderly. You’ll also discover: How to heal the esophagus of inflammation or injury, as well as manage or prevent complicationsThe latest information on prescription medications and side effectsHealthy habits to adopt to reduce your pain triggersHelpful home remedies and alternative medicineThe special risks and remedies for heartburn during pregnancyThe side effects and complications associated with surgeryComplete with a catalog of heartburn medicines and a list of reliable Web sites for people with digestive disorders, Heartburn & Reflux For Dummies is your one-stop guide to stopping the hurt, starting to heal, and enjoying food again!

"Nutrition For Dummies" is for anyone who cares about what they eat, and wants to know about the facts, not the fads. Finding easy to understand and sensible advice on what you should be eating is easier said than done - advice seems to constantly change and fad diets only seem to help celebrities pile on the pounds in their bank account, rather than making any of us healthier! In this book, Nigel Denby and Sue Baic, two experienced and registered dieticians, dispel all myths and provide you with the information you need to eat for a healthy life. They explain every aspect of the subject from the basics about essential nutrients to the relationship between allergies and food and give you the knowledge and confidence to start making wise food choices.Inside you'll find information on: the basic facts about nutrition - digestion; the 24-hour food factory - calories; the energisers - what you get from food; powerful protein; the lowdown on fat and cholesterol; carbohydrates - a complex story; alcohol - another form of grape and grain; vigorous vitamins; mighty minerals; phabulous phytochemicals; water works; healthy eating; why you eat when you eat; why you like the foods you like; what is a healthy diet?; making wise food choices; eating smart when eating out; what is food processing?; cooking and nutrition; food and medicine; when food gives you a rash; food and mood; food and drug interactions; and, a supplemental story.

Updated with the latest available research and the new 2020-2025 Dietary GuidelinesIt's a scientific fact: You really are what you eat. Good nutrition is your meal-ticket to staying sleek, healthy, and strong—both physically and mentally. Nutrition For Dummies, 7th Edition is a complete guide that shows you how to maintain a healthy weight, promote health, and prevent chronic disease. This book gives you the know-how to put together a shopping list, prepare healthy foods, and easily cut calories. Along the way, there's up-to-the-minute guidance for building a nutritious diet at every stage of life from toddler time to your Golden Years. Enjoy!

A tribute to the parts we can live without... or can we?This book sheds light on human body parts once considered extraneous but now – with modern medicine and modern medical paraphernalia – shown to play an important role in our healthful survival. With wit and research-honed wisdom, health writer Carol Ann Rinzler explains in layman's language why we need “bonus” body parts such as:The appendix, once discarded as “the worm of the intestines,” but now believed to play an important role in our immune systemThe coccyx, a.k.a. the “tailbone,” once considered the remnant of a human tail, but now considered the keystone of the boney pelvic arch when muscles meet and stabilize our seatingWisdom teeth, that “extra” set of molars for which many “evolved” human jaws lack accommodating space but still remain in place where we higher primates still follow a basic “hard”diet that require extra chew powerOn the other hand, having highlighted the still-important parts, Rinzler adds a chapter on dispensables: parts with which we can indeed happily dispense. Along the way, Rinzler weaves in Darwin’s theories of evolution and shares insights on what the human body may be like millennia from now.