Heart Health

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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 »

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 »

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 »

Exercise: A program you can live with

What can improve your mood, help relieve insomnia, and lower your risk for heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, and colon cancer? The answer is regular exercise. It may seem too good to be true, but it's not. Hundreds of studies conducted over the past 50 years demonstrate that exercise helps you feel better and live longer. This report answers many important questions about physical activity, from how your body changes through exercise to what diseases it helps prevent. Learn more »

Healthy Eating: A guide to the new nutrition

Some foods are good for you, some are bad. But which are which? The answers, according to the latest nutritional science, are not the same as previously thought. While some age-old advice like “eat your vegetables” still holds true, many early assumptions have turned out to be wrong. This report describes the food-health connection and takes on controversial topics like food additives, cooking methods, the role of carbohydrates, and more. Learn more »

The Harvard Medical School Guide to Lowering Your Blood Pressure

High blood pressure, or hypertension, has been called the biggest threat to health in the United States. Nearly half of all adults have blood pressure that is too high. Sometimes, the only way to achieve a healthy blood pressure is to take medicines. However, the latest national expert guidelines emphasize that nutrition, exercise, stress management and mind-body techniques also have considerable value. The Harvard Medical School Guide to Lowering Your Blood Pressure tells you about how you can... Learn more »

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