
Heart Health
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 »
Healthy Eating: A guide to the new nutrition
Eat real food. That’s the essence of today’s nutrition message. Our knowledge of nutrition has come full circle, back to eating food that is as close as possible to the way nature made it. Based on a solid foundation of current nutrition science, Harvard’s Special Health Report Healthy Eating: A guide to the new nutrition describes how to eat for optimum 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 »
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 »
Vitamins and Minerals: Choosing the nutrients you need to stay healthy
About half of all Americans routinely take dietary supplements, the most common being multivitamin and multimineral supplements. This report explains the different types of studies used to assess the benefits and safety profiles of various nutrients. It also includes the recommended minimum and maximum amounts of the vitamins and minerals you should consume, as well as good food sources of each. Learn more »
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 »
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 »
