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Heart Disease

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Healthy Eating for a Healthy Heart

Healthy Eating for a Healthy Heart

Despite major advances in drugs and medical treatments, maintaining a healthy diet, being physically active, and not smoking are still the best approaches to preventing heart disease. Improving your diet lowers your risk for heart disease in many ways, including helping to lower high cholesterol, blood pressure, and blood sugar and insulin levels, as well as preventing obesity and improving the function of your heart and blood vessels. Fortunately, a heart-healthy diet is relatively easy to... Learn more »

Heart Disease: A guide to preventing and treating coronary artery disease

Heart Disease: A guide to preventing and treating coronary artery disease

Most people fear heart disease — and with good reason: it’s the leading cause of death for both men and women. But something that people may not realize is that preventing this disease is often within their control. Most people who develop heart disease have one or more major risk factors that are within their power to change. These include lack of exercise, high blood pressure, and abnormal cholesterol levels. There are surefire ways to tackle these risk factors that you can include in... Learn more »

Mind Your Heart: A Mind/Body Approach to Stress Management, Exercise, and Nutrition for Heart Health

Mind Your Heart: A Mind/Body Approach to Stress Management, Exercise, and Nutrition for Heart Health

Based on the innovative Cardiac Wellness Program at the world-renowned Mind/Body Medical Institute, founded by pioneering physician and researcher Herbert Benson, M.D., Mind Your Heart offers a balanced and holistic approach to heart health that combines lifestyle changes with cutting-edge medical procedures. Learn more »

The Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide

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 »

What to do about High Cholesterol

What to do about High Cholesterol

What to do about High Cholesterol offers up-to-date information to help you, or a loved one, keep cholesterol in check. The report spells out healthy, and unhealthy, cholesterol levels, and offers specific ways to keep cholesterol in line. The report explains cholesterol tests, the genetics of cholesterol, and treatments based on the latest scientific evidence. It covers the pros and cons of statins and other medications, and provides the lowdown on other substances advertised to lower... Learn more »

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