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Publication Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was the spark of life as well as somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As the cardiologist and bestselling author Sandeep Jauhar shows in [this book], it was only recently that we demolished age-old taboos and developed the science to change the way we live. Deftly weaving together his own experiences with the defining discoveries...
Author
Publication Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A leading cardiologist and author of the international bestseller The South Beach Diet, exposes the truth about the American health care system and its response to the nations #1 killer: heart disease. In his most personal and passionate work, Dr. Arthur Agatston, who has helped millions of people find a healthy lifestyle, now hopes to champion a revolution in preventive medicine that will save lives. Drawing on nearly three decades as a practicing...
Author
Series
Proper Romance volume 9
Publication Date
2026
Language
English
Description
"After her heart transplant, Liv has spent years protecting her heart-literally and figuratively. Running her family's bakery feels like enough, until her guarded, maddeningly attractive new neighbor, Hunter, upends her carefully controlled world. He's cynical, with walls as high as her own. But as their attraction grows, Liv wonders if she's ready to tear hers down for a chance at love"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Workman Pub
Publication Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Beginning with assessing risk and covering diet, exercise, stress relief, medications and procedures, this book is a complete guide to the lifestyle changes that can make a life-or-death difference. Medically up-to-date and easy to implement, it's a program that will help every reader increase the odds of living longer.
Author
Publication Date
2002
Language
English
Description
The groundbreaking cholesterol-lowering program . . . now even more effective! 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...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publication Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In the absence of good, trustworthy information, patients are guided mostly by their fear instincts when diagnosed with heart disease. With the misperception that more is better, they all too often end up agreeing to undergo every test and treatment recommendation of their harried healthcare provider, who could well be influenced by accepted norms, cognitive biases, medicolegal concerns, or economic considerations. All this leads to gross overuse...
Author
Publication Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"In Ticker, Texas Monthly executive editor and two-time National Magazine Award winner Mimi Swartz takes readers behind the scenes of perhaps the greatest medical and technological quest of our time, as she follows pioneering heart surgeon O.H. "Bud" Frazier and his partner, Dr. Billy Cohn, in Frazier's lifelong effort to develop, perfect, and successfully implant an artificial heart in patients whose hearts are failing. In Ticker, renowned journalist...
Author
Publication Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"If you want to improve your health or simply maintain it, The New American Heart Association cookbook, Centennial Edition, is for you. This comprehensive resource provides information on grocery shopping strategies, stocking a healthy kitchen, preparing delicious recipes, eating well, meal planning, and much more. This revised edition of the American Heart Association's flagship cookbook offers not only more than 800 recipes-100 of which are all...