It's been awhile since I jumped on the public health soapbox, so here you go:
September is Cholesterol Education Month.
Yeah, yeah. Is there anyone left on the planet who doesn't know the risks of high cholesterol levels, who doesn't understand the links between diet & exercise and cardiovascular health?
I wonder if health educators get burned out. I wonder how often nutritionists feel like tossing their leaflets out a window and saying "Screw it, go have a Big Mac. Have two. You obviously don't care, why should I?"
I'm going to keep at it anyway...I had a pretty unhealthy lifestyle for years even though I knew the damage I could be doing, but something made me clean up my act. Who knows, maybe some random Google searcher will decide that today is his day, and may find these links helpful:
National Cholesterol Education Program's Risk Calculator
It still kills more women than breast cancer: the Heart Truth for women
Keep the Beat recipes from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
The Cholesterol Low Down from the American Heart Association
Good fats, bad fats explained by the Harvard School of Public Health
My favorite good fat: avocados...not just for guacamole. (From the California Avocado Commission)
Posted by Nic at September 1, 2004 11:57 AM