Thanks for sharing this insightful book! I have shared this book w/ all of my reading friends and have recommended it to the three libraries that I frequent.

This book had a lot of really good information in it. I have to admit that I already knew a lot of it, but don't always implement it. The author makes a case consistently throughout the book that there is nothing more important and I have to agree. However, I lack the self-discipline to be as stringent about it as he is.

The author connects medical literature to things you can actually do in your life to make healthy changes. He explains it very in a detailed manner and uses relatable metaphors. He explains how your body systems work and relates that information directly to the foods you eat and your exercise routine.

I believe I will try to make some of the changes suggested in this book. However, as I've stated in other reviews, I am not a person that will cut out a bunch of food groups all at once. There are quite a few things that you should not eat according to this book. The author makes a good case for all of them, but I think it would just be too much for me personally.

As I stated above this book had a lot of good information in it, but it got fairly repetitive, which bothers me. At a certain point, I felt like telling him that he already told me that...several times. I do not need to be beaten over the head with the information. I suppose he figured the repetition would help the information sink in and be retained, but it got a little annoying.

The only other thing I really didn't like about this book and will complain about is the epilogue. The epilogue tells of a visit he had with a man that he had installed a pacemaker for in India and how he tried to instill Christian values in that man and that he hopes everyone will spend time with the bible because it is "special literature that can change your spiritual life." I have no problem with the author preaching this message and I believe that spiritual health is important, but I don't feel that was the place for it. I almost felt as if I had been tricked into reading it because it was in this book. There are people of other religions that may not feel comfortable or be interested in reading about the author's religious views and I feel that it was out of place in a book about physical health.

Other than that, this is a book worth reading. If you have health issues or just want to get healthier so that you can feel good and live a long, healthy life, give it a try.

When a book written by a professional speaks in layman’s terms, I love it. This was a very easy book to read and one that I’m glad I picked up at the beginning of the year. It helps me keep my (sometimes) very unevenly balanced priorities in place.
The action steps at the end of chapters were simple and easy to follow.
I know that there are different schools of thought with regard to what fats are ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and I’ll soon share another book that somewhat contradicts this one. However, like I said, I got a lot of out this book.

No I don't have cholesterol if you want to know that. In my latest blood exam I complained because it was 156 so high to my point of view. My family doctor reassured me: "More than good." I think it's the Parmesan I add in a daily base in the pasta...It would be better to keep cholesterol under 100.

Said that: considering that I have seen the hell in terms of people with very big problems associated at bad customs and wrong life-style I picked up this book Your Cholesterol Matters What Your Numbers Mean and How You Can Improve Them by Richard Furman, MD, FACS published by Revell immediately after the festivities ;-) with great joy.

One day I was talking with a schoolmate. We were speaking about people and doctors and we agreed on a fact: that always more young people fall, and fall seriously ill, sometimes at a point of no return, for strokes or heart attacks, something never seen in the past decades, when strokes were associated to old people, at the end of their existence but not at people of 30-40-50 years or sometimes younger than that.
We concluded saying: "It's not normal at all!"

I hate to see dying very young people because of smoke, bad habits in terms of food. I hate to see sufferance because I have seen sufferance.

Written by a doctor who, for more than 30 years cleaned up the arteries of many patients, the book is plenty informative regarding our body, our car, let's put this comparison and how we can maintain it efficient, and cholesterol free.

Richard Furman add that keeping your weight ok, eating properly without exaggeration in terms of bad fat and doing some exercise you will be fine and... You will avoid the cholesterol pill plenty of collateral effects as also explained.

In the USA first of all before to prescribe the cholesterol pill doctors suggest these three things: losing weight, exercise and a good diet for bilancing cholesterol. Most people don't read what their physician say and they start to take this pill that in most cases can cause serious problems, muscular problems.

There are two kind of cholesterol: the one in our blood affecting directly the arteries and the other one of the food. This one will have the most important impact on our blood cholesterol.

Cholesterol is in good percentage a great allied of our body: it helps the assimilation of vit. A,D, E.

There are two kind of cholesterol: one is lethal for the health and another one considered by the doctor a real hero.
It is important to keep the bad one as low as possible and the hero one as high as possible.

It's important to use good sense affirms Richard Furman: first of all much more than a medication we must take care of ourselves. Silly to take the cholesterol pill and then eat all the food you were eating in the past because "I take the pill for the cholesterol."

Cholesterol will pass through a good life-style and three words: exercise, weight control/loss and food. In this way you won't take the cholesterol pill.
Exercise is tremendously important because a heart kept strong, the heart is a muscle, will be in grade to work much more efficiently and plus it will be possible to lose weight bad cholesterol.

This book will reveal to you how, in a society plenty of temptations (remember that all good food is bad food for your body!) in culinary term better to avoid to eat more than the necessary.

It's possible to change. It's possible to say: no I want to stay health!
Try it.

It will save your life.

Please: read this book and then spread the word and start to live a new chapter of your existence.

I thank NetGalley for this book!

I loved this book. I have had high cholesterol most of my adult life and never really understood the possible causes and preventions until now. Dr. Furman is a vascular surgeon, so would know the causes and preventions of cholesterol. Right off the bat he starts by saying that on every sheet that comes with statin medicine says that cholesterol can be treated with a healthy weight, diet and exercise. And by changing those three lifestyle changes you can lower your cholesterol and may never take another statin again. He lists all the foods that cause cholesterol and what foods to avoid and menu plans showing foods that are good foods. I read this book twice and each time found more and more useful information. Highly recommend this book for anyone with cholesterol problems and wants to solve them.

Dr Furman's cholesterol awareness book covers all the basics in an easy to understand format. Instead of using medical intervention or prescriptions as a norm to mitigate the ill effects of an unhealthy lifestyle, Dr Furman prescribes a combination of self-awareness, diet control, and exercise. Lifestyle changes to get to an optimum HDL, LDL and a healthy heart is well-described. Only pathos is that the book covers topics less deeply, but by doing so the book may have been unwieldy.