Best Practices for a Healthy Heart: How to Stop Heart Disease Before or After It Starts

by Sarah Samaan

The heart beats more than 2,500,000,000 times over the average life—and, despite great strides in medicine, prevention is still the best way to keep your heart running strong. If you want to help your heart—and especially if you already have a cardiac diagnosis, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, or a family history of heart disease— Best Practices for a Healthy Heart is your complete guide to cardio care. For more than twenty years, award-winning, board-certified cardiologist Dr. Sarah Samaan has treated thousands of patients and tirelessly kept pace with the latest research—and now, she condenses her best advice into 7 easy steps on how

• Take charge of your “numbers”—your weight, cholesterol, heart rate, and blood pressure
• Make heart-smart choices about food, exercise, and stress
• Work with your doctor to design the right treatment for you
• Tell which supplements and alternative therapies really help
• Avoid vices that will harm your heart—and much more!

Put these best practices in action today, and you will decrease your risk of disease and dependence on medication, experience a wealth of positive “side effects” (from a smaller waistline to a happier outlook!), and soon be seven steps nearer to optimal heart health.

Genres: Health

384 pages, Paperback

First published January 3, 2012

Reviews

[Bea · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is like a nutrition bible that explains all those medical terms on your lab result reports. She tells the latest findings for diets, and list supplements and herbs, what they are supposed to do and what they really do. Her book is mainly about what affects the heart and causes diabites.

[Gerald Kinro · Rating 3 out of 5]

is a major killer in the United States, and the author offers suggestions to readers on how to reduce one’s risk of coronary disease. She condenses her information into steps: Weight, cholesterol, blood pressure, and heart rate management; eating and exercising right, working with your physician, and avoiding certain habits such as smoking. She includes discussions about alcohol consumption and supplement use.

As a practicing cardiologist, author Samaan in certainly knowledgeable. Most of the steps are easy to follow and good information is provided. While I enjoyed the book, I cannot give it a higher rating because of documentation or the lack of it. I have read in other (reliable, I might add) sources some information that differed from what she provided. I wished to research further to get more to come to my own conclusions. Her bibliography is scant and very general, however, and does not direct the reader who wants more information or to verify facts.