|FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, September 11, 1998 Office: (301)
496-4236 NHLBI Announces New Cholesterol Web Site for Heart
Disease Patients - Enter their LDL cholesterol level and learn
what their doctor may prescribe to lower it - Get an estimate of
their daily dietary allowances for saturated fat, total fat,
cholesterol, calories, and sodium, based on their height,
weight, age, sex and activity level - Select all of a day's
foods for meals and see a report of the amount of saturated fat,
total fat, cholesterol, calories, and sodium for each meal and
for the day. This is compared with their daily dietary
allowances - Find out how to read food labels in the grocery
store - Learn how to recognize serving sizes - Get some heart-
healthy recipes - Understand how drugs lower cholesterol - Take
a cholesterol and heart IQ test - Discover how physical activity
helps them stay healthy More than 13 million American adults
have CHD. It is a major cause of disability and the number one
killer of both women and men in th