Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper's all-new plan to lower cholesterol without drugs!

The Old News: Elevated levels of cholesterol put you at risk for heart attack and stroke.

The New News: Now you can control cholesterol naturally!

Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper, a leading authority on controlling cholesterol, shares his all-new plan for balancing your blood lipids--without drugs and without side effects.

Drawing on clinical trials and the most up-to-date medical research, Dr. Cooper explains how exciting new food discoveries can give you a revolutionary new way to manage your cholesterol. Inside you'll discover:

How the new functional foods, such as Benecol and Take Control, can lower bad cholesterol while improving the ratio between good and bad cholesterol in only three weeks

How these "anti-cholesterol" foods work, why they are safe to use, and who should use them

How Dr. Cooper's approach can end--or greatly reduce--your use of prescription cholesterol-lowering medications

Expert advice on diet and exercise, including recipes and more amazing nutritional discoveries

And much more

You don't have to go farther than your fridge to find an effective, nonprescription cholesterol-controlling product.

From the groundbreaker in preventive medicine and father of the worldwide aerobics movement, Dr. Cooper takes the latest scientific antioxidant search from around the world and brings you a simple four step life plan that will revolutionize your health. It's the simplest plan yet to build you own personal defense system for a longer, healthier life!

Antiossidanti vengono chiamate le sostanze e le attività in grado di combattere i radicali liberi. Questi ultimi sono tra le cause, non secondarie, di numerose malattie e sono i primi responsabili dell'invecchiamento cellulare. Vengono prodotti in quantità pericolose dal fumo di sigarette, dall'aria inquinata, dai raggi ultravioletti, dalle radiazioni, dallo sforzo fisico eccessivo, da un'alimentazione inappropriata. L'autore intende insegnare come tenere sotto controllo colesterolo e ipertensione e, grazie alle ricerche più avanzate sugli antiossidanti, propone un programma di salute per combattere i radicali liberi.

Like a time bomb ticking away, hypertension  builds quietly, gradually, placing unbearable strain on  the body until it explodes--in heart attack,  stroke, kidney failure, arterial disease, even death.  But the disease does not have to progress that  way. Here, in the third volume of the highly  acclaimed Preventive Medicine Program,  Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper, one of the nations foremost  experts in the field of preventive medicine,  presents a medically sound, reassuringly simple program  that help you lower you blood pressure--and keep  it down, often without drugs. Overcoming  Hypertension gives  you:



--The latest facts on how cholesterol, cigarette  smoking, obesity, and stress affect coronary risk  levels.



--Your high blood pressure  risk profile, with newly devised charts for men  and women.



--A complete fitness  program that lets you choose the sport that works for  you. Plus a unique illustrated guide to  aqua-aerobics.



--Tips on talking to your  doctor that will help you become an active  participant in your own recovery.



--A  guide to anti-hypertensive drugs--the most up-to-date  list of medications, their recommended daily  doses, and ways to minimize side  effects.



--Three distinct dietary programs, complete with  menus, recipes, nutritional charts, healthy cooking  tips, and much more.



--Take  charge of your health and well-being with  Overcoming  Hypertension.


From the Paperback edition.

Based on research on the interrelationship among aerobic exercise, nutrition, and emotional equilibrium, Cooper's program is designed to achieve and maintain good health

Regaining the Power of Youth at Any Age features a scientifically based program that will guide you to a higher level of physical and mental fitness that you may have believed impossible to attain.