Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Understanding Blood Cholesterol; Chapter 2. Linking Cholesterol and Heart Disease; Chapter 3. Exercising to Impact Cholesterol and Health; Chapter 4. Setting Goals to Modify Cholesterol; Chapter 6. Building an Exercise Program; Chapter 7. Establishing a Healthy Diet; Chapter 8. Choosing Medication for Lower Cholesterol; Chapter 9. Investigating Complementary and Alternative Therapies.

About the Author

Larry Durstine is director of clinical exercise programmes and a professor in the department of Exercise Science at the University of South Carolina. Since 1976, he has beeninvolved in research focusing on the evaluation of exercise testing and training programmes in healthy and diseased individuals. He has also spent the majority of his career developing and researching adult fitness programmes.