Category: What You and Your Doctor Can Do

As we noted above, if you have diabetes, it’s likely you have or will have CHD unless you dramatically change your lifestyle. However, one-third of all people with diabetes don’t even know they have it. If you scored 10 or more points: You are at high risk for having diabetes. Only your health care provider...

Sometimes no amount of dietary and lifestyle change is enough to get your cholesterol down to a safe level. While some people can makejust a few changes—substituting butter for olive oil, or eating fish instead of steak twice a week—and see their cholesterol drop 15 points in two weeks, others may follow the Plan to...

Take this quiz to determine your risk for CHD or heart attack. The answers will help you set LDL goals and let you know if you may need to start on a cholesterol-lowering drug. Step 1 Count Your Risk Factors If you don’t have known heart disease or diabetes, answer the following questions. lf you...

Even if you already have heart disease, it’s not too late to help your heart . if you have CHD your risk of heart aattack or some other coronary event is much higher than that of someone who doesn’t so your need for  Plan is that much urgent, and its potential energy it that much...

Controlling your cholesterol can do much more than simply protect you from heart disease and stroke, A growing body of evidence suggests that what’s good for the heart may also be good for the mind, and that low levels of cholestero! may help prevent Alzheimer’s disease. In one of the strongest studies linking the two...

Knowing your weight isn’t enough to determine if you’re overweight or obese. For that you need to know your Body Mass Index (BMI), a measure that takes into account both height and weight.” >...