Eating for a Healthy Heart: Explaining the French Paradox

by Sara Stanner and John Yudkin

"Eating for a Healthy Heart" examines why the French incidence of heart disease is only a third of that in the U.S., despite a French national diet filled with high-cholesterol foods. The authors... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 056337165X
• ISBN13: 9780563371656
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: BBC Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

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Review of "Eating for a Healthy Heart"

Concise and easy to read with lots of examples--obviously a competant Professor writing here. Reviews and ties together all the studies about the Mediterranean diet vis a vi the "French Paradox" whereby the French eat a diet high in cholesterol and fat and yet have a low heart attack rate. By the end of the book the reader will fully understand all the risk factors and their solutions for heart disease whether he lives in Peoria or Paris.