The patient's wife is feeling overwhelmed and tells the nurse that she doesn't know if she can manage to cook different dinners for her husband and the rest of the family to satisfy his cholesterol-reducing diet. The nurse tells her:
a. "It will be worth it to have him healthy, won't it?"
b. "The low-cholesterol diet is one from which everyone can benefit."
c. "As long as you change at least a few things in the diet, it will be okay."
d. "You can go on the diet with him, and then just let the children eat whatever they want."
B
Some cardiologists advocate a reduction of the low-density lipoprotein goal to the 50 to 70 mg/dL range for everyone, not only those with a known cardiovascular disease.
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