Product Description

There is irrefutable evidence that high cholesterol levels are associated with increased risk of coronary artery disease and a resultant heart attack. Cholesterol Protection For Life explains my nutritional approach to heart disease and cholesterol lowering. It describes the safest and most potent natural cholesterol-lowering agents that can be used in conjunction with my dietary approach to assure that dramatic cholesterol lowering can occur without the risks of taking drugs. Also try some of the new menu plans recipes.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #172066 in Books
• Published on: 2006-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Review
Cholesterol Protection For Life is a no-nonsense, right-to-the-point book for cholesterol lowering and eliminating heart disease. -- Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D. Preventive Cardiology Consultant Department of General Surgery, Cleveland Clinic

This book tells you the most effective way to lower cholesterol without drugs and how to virtually disease-proof your body -- Gerald Deutsch, President, National Health Association

About the Author
Joel Fuhrman, M.D., is a board-certified family physician who specializes in preventing and reversing disease through nutritional and natural methods. He is the author of Eat To Live, The Revolutionary Formula For Fast and Sustained Weight Loss," published by Little Brown & Co. and "Fasting and Eating for Health: A Medical Doctor's Program for Conquering Disease," published by St. Martin's. He lives in Flemington, New Jersey.

Customer Reviews

Effective heart health advice, without using statin drugs
Don't believe anybody who says aggressive nutritional therapy can't work miracles - it can! If you've been told that you need to take cholesterol lowering medications for the rest of your life, even if you have already tried "dietary intervention", read Cholesterol Protection for Life (CPFL). You have the right to know that there is an effective option besides statin drugs; your doctor probably has not mentioned it. The patients of the author, Dr. Joel Fuhrman, routinely see their cholesterol plummet within weeks of adopting the eating style outlined in CPFL and expanded upon in the "mother" volume, Eat to Live (ETL).

The advice on the web site of the National Cholesterol Education Panel (NCEP) is a disgrace. According to NCEP's "Be Heart Smart!" page, we should eat meat with some fat cut off, skim fat off our gravy, make biscuits by glopping vegetable oil into them instead of lard, and use low-fat cheese to make macaroni and cheese. - i.e., tweak the fat but continue eating the junk that contributed to our heart disease to begin with!

CPFL, instead, talks about the foods we should eat to reverse CVD: vegetables, raw nuts, beans, oats, and pomegranates and their wondrous heart-healing micronutrients. CPFL provides the dietary framework and some recipes that exemplify how to make vegetables, fruits, and beans taste so great that you won't miss NCEP's biscuits and gravy much. CPFL also discusses the dangers of statin drugs; salt and stroke risk; homocysteine and folate absorption; the persistence of high cholesterol levels in some people (like me), despite nutritional excellence.

Seven months after starting CPFL's recommendations, my LDL was 136, HDL was 46, and I was still 15 pounds from my ideal weight. I then started adding 100% safe cholesterol lowering supplements to my nutritional regime. Two months after that baseline I reached my ideal weight. Ten months after the baseline my LDL fell below 100 and my HDL rose to 77 - using only food and nutritional supplements!

easy Informative read
I found this book so easy to read and understand. It is a lifesaver if you are suffering from high cholesterol levels or heart disease or if you want to ensure you never do! Dr. Fuhrman gives you delicious recipes and easy to follow nutritional advice. He also tells you exactly what supplements to take if needed. There really are other options besides statin drugs and their unwanted side effects. It is sad that more doctors don't give advice and information like this to their patients.. I admire Dr. Fuhrman so much for the tireless effort he puts into helping us learn ways to cure illness and live longer, healthier lives. This book gives you the knowledge you need to find your own way back to a healthy life free from drugs and heart disease.

excellent book
EXcellent book written to given alternatives to taking the normal cholesteral lowering drugs. He is very motivational, informative yet balanced in his view. I just got my blood test back and my cholesterol has lowered by 99 points. He also gives lots of ideas on things to eat that are helpfu.