Take a Load Off Your Heart: 109 Things You Can Actually Do to Prevent, Halt and Reverse Heart Disease

by Joseph C. Piscatella, Barry Franklin

Increase the odds of living longer with this bold, broad approach to cardiac health. A medically up-to-the-minute and easy-to-implement program, Take a Load Off Your Heart sets our four key steps to cardiovascular fitness, from assessing risk to managing stress, from improving diet to making a habit of exercise. It demystifies predictive markers such as trigylcerides and Syndrome X, and offers 109 simple, practical lifestyle tips - #22 Breathe deeply, #96 Drink black tea, #3 Increase your HDL level, #54 Walk briskly, #75 Give up dieting - for preventing, stabilizing and, yes, reversing heart disease.

Genres: Health

448 pages, Paperback

First published February 15, 2003

Reviews

[Sebastian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent overview of heart health risk factors and what you can actually do to minimize the risk of heart desease (the most preventable form of death in the USA...). If you want to live longer, read this book... Not amazingly well written, but concise, to the point and informative

[Leonard · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is an excellent and thorough source or information on the problem of heart disease.

[Mslizzie · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent reference for heart health. Easy to read and very informative.

[James Pritchert · Rating 5 out of 5]

Here is another health book that I enjoyed. I met the author an discussed the books objectives. Worth your time and effort if you are middle-aged.