
Cholesterol
4 Weeks to Healthy Digestion
Your medicine cabinet is brimming with antacids, gas relievers, and digestive aids of every description. You may have tried lightening up on rich foods or spending money on tests and pricey medication. But your suffering has only gotten worse! Maybe it's not another pill you need but a good dose of common sense—that and a man with a plan for making you better. Learn more »
Beating Heart Disease: Strategies for a healthy heart
If you follow the news about heart disease closely, it’s easy to be overwhelmed or confused about what puts you at risk and how you can protect yourself. This report helps you identify the risk factors you can control, which range from medical conditions such as high blood pressure to lifestyle choices such as an unhealthy diet or lack of exercise. Learn more »
The Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide
To take advantage of the latest medical advances, and to deal with the often-confusing world of health care, you need information that is clear, accurate, easily understandable, and accessible. Developed by 170 faculty members of Harvard Medical School, physicians who care for patients every day, The Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide brings you the information you need to keep your and your family healthy and to cope with illness when it does strike. Learn more »
The Harvard Medical School Guide to Lowering Your Cholesterol
High cholesterol affects approximately 50 million Americans and is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease — which half of all men and a third of all women will get at some time in their lives. The Harvard Medical School Guide to Lowering Your Cholesterol provides the most expert, up-to-date advice on reaching and maintaining healthy cholesterol levels, including information on nutrition, exercise, and alternative approaches. Learn more »
What to do about High Cholesterol
Why do people on cholesterol-lowering drugs still have heart attacks? What role does cholesterol really play? How can you lower your risk of heart disease and stroke? What to do About High Cholesterol answers these questions and explains why lowering your LDLs (the bad cholesterol) is even more important than previously thought. Learn more »
Harvard Heart Letter
When it comes to your heart, you can’t afford to act on dubious or downright false information. Now there’s a source of expert advice and authoritative heart research that comes to you directly from the more than 8,000 doctors and researchers at Harvard Medical School. The Harvard Heart Letter provides eight pages of monthly heart news for readers who may already suffer from heart disease (or their family members) and for people concerned about their risk who wish to take steps... Learn more »
Living with Heart Failure
Heart failure -- which means the heart can’t pump as well as it should -- is a serious but manageable condition. It’s more common than you might guess: an estimated 5.2 million adults in the United States have heart failure, and 550,000 new cases are revealed each year. Most cases stem from heart muscle damage after a heart attack. The information in this report will help you understand heart failure so that you can actively participate in your care. Starting with an in-depth... Learn more »
