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• Is Your Job Wrecking Your Heart?
• Cholesterol Basics
• Tips for Avoiding Heart Disease
• What's Your Cholesterol IQ?
• Q&A: Cholesterol Medications
• The Truth About Omega-3

FeaturesRelated to Cholesterol Management

41. Show Your Love with a Heart-Healthy Dinner
    
    Cook up our healthy (and romantic!) dinner for that special someone
    
42. Accurate or Not? At-Home Cholesterol Tests and Blood Pressure Monitors
    
    If you have high cholesterol or high blood pressure (or if you're worried about having it), you may have been tempted by the many at-home cholesterol tests and blood pressure monitors currently on the market. The devices promise quick, accurate results in the privacy of your own home, a boon for bus
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43. Cholesterol: What the Numbers Really Mean
    
    You may look and feel fine. But if your cholesterol is high, then your heart health -- and therefore your overall health -- are at risk. "Cholesterol is a waxy-like substance made in the liver, and is also derived from the foods we eat. It comes in two forms: LDL, the bad cholesterol, and HDL, the g
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44. The Baby Boomer Heart: Cholesterol Rising
    
    If you are active and young enough to think that "middle age" begins at 60, you're probably a baby boomer who never thought you'd need to worry about high cholesterol. That's something that happens to "older" people, but not you! The truth is, if you're 45 to 60 -- or even younger -- you're at risk.
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45. The Skinny on Cholesterol
    
    Here's what you need to know to keep yours low
    
46. Portfolio Diet: Recipe for Lower Cholesterol
    
    Don't think of the portfolio diet as a diet; think of it as an investment in lower cholesterol. That advice comes from David J.A. Jenkins, MD, creator of the portfolio diet. Or, as the University of Toronto nutrition expert prefers to call it, a dietary portfolio. Whatever he calls it, it clearly wo
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47. How Low Must Your Cholesterol Go?
    
    The newest dance: the cholesterol limbo. Step one: You get your bad LDL cholesterol down to normal levels. Whew! You're under the bar. Step two: Your doctor says normal levels aren't low enough and sets the bar lower. Step three: You get your cholesterol way down. You're under the bar again! Step fo
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48. Cholesterol Control: The Alternatives
    
    Doctors call it hypercholesterolemia, but most people know it as plain old high cholesterol. A soft, waxy material, cholesterol is a natural part of fats in the bloodstream and in all the body's cells. Too much cholesterol circulating in the blood can cause sticky deposits to form in the artery wall
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49. Do You Know Your Cholesterol Numbers?
    
    Many studies show that people with high cholesterol levels should be treated with cholesterol-lowering drugs, but aren't. And guidelines published last year have lowered the mark even further, categorizing more people as having high cholesterol levels making them candidates for cholesterol-lowering
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50. Facts About Cholesterol
    
    Is the cholesterol in egg yolks the "good" or "bad" kind? Can you "burn" cholesterol by exercising? Which has more cholesterol, a tablespoon of butter or a cup of peanut butter? Most people know that fat is bad for them, but two-thirds of Americans are confused about how cholesterol differs from fat
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