Texas Heart Institute Heart Owner's Handbook

By Texas Heart Institute

Book Overview

From one of the most respected cardiovascular research and education facilities in the world comes a personalized wellness program for your most important asset. Take the Institute's simple test to evaluate your heart's health and identify your individual risk factors. Then, use the easy-to-follow, step-by-step programs to improve your overall health. Specifics include: * Exercise What kind you should do, and how much is enough (Chapters 2 and 15) * Weight Control What body type are you? A practical approach to attaining a healthy weight (Chapters 4 and 16) * Managing Stress How to measure and reduce it (Chapters 7 and 18) * Controlling High Blood Pressure How to detect it, and what to do about it (Chapter 8) * Lowering Your Cholesterol Count How much is too much, and how you can control it (Chapter 9) * Nutrition and Recipes The latest guide-lines and 31 delicious, heart-smart recipes (Chapters 3 and 21) * The Differences Between Men's and Women's Heart Health Pregnancy and childbearing, hormones, menopause, and their relationship to heart disease (Chapter 11) * Diagnosis and Treatment How to recognize the symptoms of heart disease, what to ask your doctor, and the facts about heart surgery and drug therapy (Chapters 23, 26, and 35)

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047105982X
• ISBN13: 9780471059820
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Comprehensive, but also easy to read , and understand

This book was, not only useful, but also interesting.When someone reads this book, he will not fall into a pool of complex and circumstantial scientific information; But, he will find effective and practicable way to recognize his risk factors and how to control them;and if he suffers from a kind of heart disease, can find many answers to majority of his questions; which indeed has great positive effect on his heart condition.