Product Description

The 2-million-copy seller and No. 1 "New York Times" bestseller that put oat bran in America's diet. This revised edition includes four new chapters and new information on cholesterol testing methods.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1808433 in Books
• Published on: 1999-01-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 544 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Claiming that the popular cholesterol-reducing diets are severely restrictive, yield unremarkable results or prescribe drugs that produce adverse side effects, Kowalski, a medical journalist who suffers from heart disease, developed a palatable alternative, which, he asserts, reduced the cholesterol level in his bloodstream by 40% in a short period of time. His program combines a modified diet (red meat is allowed in moderation), and daily doses of oat bran and the B-vitamin niacin. Kowalski elucidates the complex terminology of cholesterol and other bloodstream lipids, and aptly demonstrates how oat bran and niacin lower cholesterol and, in turn, that cholesterol lowering can be instrumental in reducing the incidence of heart disease. Roundups of foods least likely to bring about a cholesterol excess, as well as those with special properties that lower cholesterol, are particularly helpful, as are suggestions for substituting oat bran in traditional recipes.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Ingram
When it was first published in 1989, this book took the nation by storm as one of the first sources to offer a proven dietary program for improving heart health. Today the title is ready to win a new audience in a convenient mass market edition. Including four chapters not in the original hardcover, this edition provides clear and easy-to-follow guidelines for lowering cholesterol by raising the amount of whole grains in the diet.

About the Author
Robert E. Kowalski a medical journalist for more than thirty-five years, devised this program for his own cholesterol problem when all else failed. He lives in California.