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NHLBI "TLC" Guide Aims to Lower Cholesterol
Brief Description:
The National Heart Lung and Blood Institute has put out a new booklet
to help people with high blood cholesterol make the necessary lifestyle
changes to reduce their risk for heart disease.
Transcript:
AKINSO: The National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
has put out a new booklet to help people with high blood cholesterol
make the necessary lifestyle changes to reduce their risk for heart disease.
All it takes, according to the booklet, is a little "TLC" — and
that means, "Therapeutic lifestyle changes." The booklet, Your Guide
to Lowering Your Cholesterol with TLC, details a three part program of
diet, physical activity, and weight management designed to bring cholesterol
levels down according to Dr. James Cleeman, Coordinator of the National
Cholesterol Education Program.
CLEEMAN: The booklet is intended to help the 65 million
Americans who have high cholesterol get their cholesterol down to their
goal level for LDL bad cholesterol by using lifestyle changes namely
diet, physical activity, and weight control. And the booklet offers a
whole set of tools that people can use to be successful in doing that.
Lifestyle is the cornerstone of cholesterol lowering treatment. So if
you have high cholesterol diet, physical activity, or weight control
are very important; but it's not enough just to say "do it"! You have
to help people do it. So these are the tools in this booklet that can
help people really do it.
AKINSO: The booklet offers a step-by-step program to
get people moving and includes a chart of calories burned in common activities.
Dr. Cleeman said TLC is more than a diet; it gives you a chance to keep
your heart healthy. And who among us wouldn't benefit from a little "TLC"?
For an online version of the booklet, visit www.nhlbi.nih.gov. This is
Wally Akinso at the National Institutes of Health Bethesda, Maryland.
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| Date: 09/15/2006 |
Reporter:
Wally Akinso |
Sound
Bite:
Dr. James Cleeman |
Topic:
Cholesterol |
| Institute(s): NHLBI |
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