
Heart Disease
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 »
Healthy Eating for a Healthy Heart
What you eat makes all the difference when it comes to keeping your heart pumping and your arteries running clear. Healthy Eating for a Healthy Heart explains latest science of cardiovascular health in easy-to-understand language. It offers recipes and eating plans to guide your daily diet. This report helps sort through the hype about weight loss and makes eating a heart-healthy diet a pleasure. 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 »
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 »
