Lean, Long and Strong: The 6-Week Strength-Training, Fat-Burning Program for Women
Author: Wini Linguvic
Personal trainer Wini Linguvic presents a revolutionary fat-burning, strength-training program designed specifically for women.
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Take a Load off Your Heart: 109 Things You Can Actually Do to Prevent, Halt and Reverse Heart Disease
Author: Joseph C Piscatella
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.
Publishers Weekly
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. According to the authors, recent research into cardiac health indicates that chronic stress not only has a direct negative impact on the heart by, for example, promoting arterial inflammation, but can also play an indirect role. Enduring daily stress frequently prevents people from finding the energy and motivation to make healthy lifestyle changes such as eating sensibly and exercising regularly. Piscatella and Franklin recommend many stress-management techniques such as meditation, deep breathing, learning to laugh and taking regular vacations that will lead to a more relaxed way of life. Exercise itself has been found to be as effective as tranquilizers in alleviating tension. Included are useful self-assessment tests for those who want to monitor and improve their heart health. (Jan.)
What People Are Saying
Kathy Berra
Finally, a book to tell us not just what to do - but how to do it.
William C. Roberts
If we lived by this advice, the cardiac health of Americans would skyrocket.
Steven N. Blair
A marvelous road map to heart health. The information is up-to-date and scientifically accurate. I recommend it highly.
Michael S. Lauer
Detailed, balanced, yet accessible...
Gary J. Balady
This easy-to-read book takes the mystery out of heart disease...
Gerald C. Timmis
Take a short-cut to a long life with a few hours of entertaining reading.
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