
Heart & Circulatory Health
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 »
Healthy Eating for Type 2 Diabetes
Myths abound when it comes to diabetes and food—one of the most common being that there is a “diabetes diet” that prohibits sugar and lists other items to avoid. In fact, dietitians and other health professionals give the same dietary advice to people with diabetes as they do to most people, but with extra emphasis on controlling weight and keeping blood sugar, blood pressure, and cholesterol values as close to normal as possible. In this report, you’ll learn about the... Learn more »
Lose Weight and Keep it Off
If you’ve struggled to lose weight, you’re in good company. But health experts have shifted toward recommending that people follow a healthy diet rather than trying to become thin. Many people have unrealistic expectations about how much weight they need to lose. Losing just small amounts of weight — about 10% of your body weight — can improve your health. 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 »
Strength and Power Training: A guide for adults of all ages
If you're like many people, you've never lifted weights in your life and you may wonder why start now? As you age, muscle tissue and strength dwindles, but weight or strength training can reverse this process. It can also lighten your heart's workload, boost levels of good cholesterol, help prevent and treat diabetes, ease stiffness from arthritis, lead to weight loss, and improve your mobility. While it's clear that there are plenty of reasons to include strength training in your routine, you... 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 »
Vitamins and Minerals: What you need to know
Understanding how vitamins and minerals interact in our body gives us a valuable means of taking our health into our own hands. Research into the effects of these micronutrients has been enlightening. For example, we now know that a large fraction of Americans are not getting enough vitamin D, and the range of consequences may be far greater than we thought. Recent studies suggest that vitamin D does more than help build strong bones; it may help to prevent hypertension, certain types of... 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 Health Letter
It's important to keep up with the medical news that affects your health and well-being. It's even better when the facts come directly from the more than 8,000 doctors and researchers at Harvard Medical School. There is no more trustworthy source of medical research articles and advice than the Harvard Health Letter. Learn more »
