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

by Sarah Samaan

A cardiologist offers seven simple steps to reduce the risk of heart attack, dementia, stroke, and other ailments.   It’s all too easy to neglect our cardiovascular health until it’s too late. But even if you already have a cardiac diagnosis, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, or a family history of heart disease, there are things you can do to improve your odds for a long, happy life. 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 this guide for cardio care, explaining how  

Take charge of your “numbers”—your weight, cholesterol, heart rate, and blood pressureMake heart-smart choices about food, exercise, and stressWork with your doctor to design the right treatment for youTell which supplements and alternative therapies really make a differenceAvoid vices that will harm your heart  Put these best practices into action today, and you can 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 get closer to optimal heart health.

Genres: Health

385 pages, Kindle Edition

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.