Product Description: It's a given that diet and lifestyle affect heart health. But recent studies show that your emotions as well as Mindbody practices such as guided imagery and meditation have an equally powerful influence. Now, building on the success of his earlier interactive kits, Dr. Andrew Weil presents a comprehensive approach to heart health, with The Healthy Heart Kit. Featuring medical experts Stephen Devries, M.D. (a pioneering preventive cardiologist specializing in integrative approaches to heart health), Erin Olivo, Ph.D. (clinical psychologist and director of the Integrative Medicine Program at Columbia University), and Martin L. Rossman, M.D. (founder of The Healing Mind and a leader in the therapeutic use of guided imagery), The Healthy Heart Kit offers a truly comprehensive action plan for lifelong wellness that includes: * Dr. Weil's Anti-inflammatory diet, emphasizing omega 3-rich foods, healthy carbohydrate choices, and delicious variety * New advances for heart health by Dr. Devries, integrating the latest science with an emphasis on natural approaches * Dr. Olivo's best exercises for optimizing the nervous system--mindfulness, stress release, and lovingkindness * Guided imagery--proven medically effective in study after study--in a 30-minute healing session with Dr. Rossman Combining all these strategies in one convenient program, including a 56-page workbook and thirty-five useful cards, provides an excellent way to begin a lifelong regimen for heart health.

• Hardcover: 56 pages
• Publisher: Sounds True; Har/Com/Cr edition (January 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 159179790X
• ISBN-13: 978-1591797906
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 5.5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #92,437 in Books

The Healthy Heart Kit (Hardcover)

Product Description: This reference thoroughly equips you to successfully diagnose and manage even the most complex incidences of diastolic heart failure and their comorbidities. It examines the basic mechanisms of this condition through discussions of both cellular and anatomic causes; guides you through non-invasive techniques for diagnosis, including echocardiography, cardiac CT, and MRI; and provides expert advice on pharmacologic management. Case examples on the accompanying CD-ROM provide a greater understanding of the diagnostic process.

• Hardcover: 464 pages
• Publisher: Saunders; 1 edition (April 18, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1416037543
• ISBN-13: 978-1416037545
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #855,618 in Books

Diastology: Clinical Approach to Diastolic Heart Failure (Hardcover)

Product Description: The introduction explains that scientists have identified 40 foods that can help reduce, prevent, and even reverse heart disease. Those 40 foods—among them chocolate, red wine, tropical fruits, almonds and avocados—are the focus of this health-conscious cookbook. All 175 recipes include one or more of them, and the first section details, food by food, in easily understandable (even occasionally funny) language, why they're good for you. The recipes are accessible and appealing, if not especially original.

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Rodale Books; First Edition edition (December 26, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1594867968
• ISBN-13: 978-1594867965
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review:  
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #19,338 in Books

WomenHeart's All Heart Family Cookbook (Hardcover)

• Paperback: 274 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. (July 27, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595316646
• ISBN-13: 978-0595316649
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: based on 10 reviews.
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #24,676 in Books

Track Your Plaque: The Only Heart Disease Prevention Program That Shows How to Use the New Heart Scans to Detect, Track and Control Coronary Plaque (Paperback)

Product Description: Robert Kowalski's personal story is legendary. By the age of forty-one, he had suffered a heart attack and had undergone two coronary bypass surgeries. A traditional dietary approach to lowering his cholesterol failed dismally, and faced with the unpleasant alternative of a lifetime on medication, he created a program that proved astonishingly effective for him -- and legions of others worldwide who used it.

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Collins (December 24, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0061031763
• ISBN-13: 978-0061031762
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: based on 24 reviews.
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #10,109 in Books

The New 8-Week Cholesterol Cure: The Ultimate Program for Preventing Heart Disease (Paperback)

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Dragon Door Publications (October 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0938045652
• ISBN-13: 978-0938045656
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: based on 21 reviews.
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #19,877 in Books

The Doctor's Heart Cure, Beyond the Modern Myths of Diet and Exercise: The Clinically-Proven Plan of Breakthrough Health Secrets That Helps You Build a Powerful, Disease-Free Heart (Paperback)

Product Description: Piscatella (Fat-Proof Your Child), a motivational speaker who had coronary bypass surgery in 1977 at the age of 32, and Franklin (Making Healthy Tomorrows), director of a Cardiac Rehabilitation Laboratory, collaborated on this clearly written guide to preventing heart disease. Like other consumer health books on this subject, the authors recommend, in detail, nutritional strategies that will lower cholesterol, exercises designed to promote cardiovascular health and, of course, an absolute prohibition against smoking. However, what is different about their plan is the emphasis on reducing stress.

• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company (February 15, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761126767
• ISBN-13: 978-0761126768
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: based on 4 reviews.
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #51,628 in Books

Take a Load off Your Heart: 109 Things You Can Actually Do to Prevent, Halt and Reverse Heart Disease (Paperback)

Product Description: It's hard to believe you're dying when you feel fit and fine...but millions of Americans are harboring unaware a condition that can rob them or kill them outright--hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, the most common form of heart disease. Even when hypertension is diagnosed, treatment is usually based on drugs, most with dismal side effects, expensive, and of limited usefulness.

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Basic Health Publications (August 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591201071
• ISBN-13: 978-1591201076
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: based on 1 review.
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #67,480 in Books

The Amazing Way to Reverse Heart Disease: Naturally : Beyond the Hypertension Hype; Why Drugs Are Not the Answer (Paperback)

Product Description: Heart disease is the number one killer in America, claiming one life every minute. Bypasses, angio-plasties, and stents treat specific artery blockages, but doctors are discovering that these invasive procedures might be only a short-term fix for the underlying problem: poor blood flow. In HEAL YOUR HEART WITH EECP, Dr. Debra Braverman debunks common misconceptions about heart disease and explains a cutting-edge, noninvasive heart procedure known as enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP).

• Publisher: Celestial Arts (October 30, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1587612445
• ISBN-13: 978-1587612442
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: based on 5 reviews.
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,292 in Books

Heal Your Heart with EECP: The Only Noninvasive Way To Overcome Heart Disease (Paperback)

Product Description: Dr. Louis Ignarro discovered the molecule of cardiovascular healthNitric Oxide (NO)which is produced naturally by the human body and serves as a regulator of blood pressure to help prevent blood clots. The problem is that many people find this out too late, going through life without understanding that this all-important molecule is the difference between healthy living and a heart attack. With all the focus on new diets, Dr. Ignarros research is all the more vital. In an easy-to-follow planwhich discusses NO friendly foods and informs about supplements to stimulate NO productionhe lays out a regimen that age-proofs the cardiovascular system, keeping it clean and the blood vessels strong. The Say Yes to NO program allows readers to tap into the bodys own cardiovascular drug and discover that the littlest molecule can make a tremendous difference.

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (January 24, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312335822
• ISBN-13: 978-0312335823
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: based on 28 reviews.
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #28,826 in Books