Guide to Contented Hearts: Cardiac Risk Management : Cholesterol, High Blood Pressure Exercise, Stress, Weight, Diet [Paperback]

D. Charles Van Fulpen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1995

CONTROL THE FIGURES THAT CONTROL YOUR LIFE. With a foreward by cardiologist H.L. Brammell, M.D., healthcare communications specialist D. Charles Van Fulpen explains how a simple 10% change in lifestyle can achieve a 20% benefit to your heart and your quality of life by reducing risks found in a continuing US heart study: too much stress, excess weight, physical inactivity, high blood pressure & high cholesterol. A former journalist, working with a cardiologist, nutritionist, exercise therapist & behavioral psychologist, Van Fulpen provides a complete risk management program including a LIFESTYLE QUIZ cardiac risk analysis test, food diary & analysis, menus & recipes, an exercise program that sticks, a fat screening quiz & how to cope in today's world of high stress and higher fear. This is a survival kit for improving quality of life to do all the things you want to do when you want to do them. It helps you to make small changes in your lifestyle to provide a pr! ofound impact on your heart & possibly reduce healthcare costs. Short case stores about real people managing change are presented: a millionaire, a poor black woman,a factory worker and his wife & a single woman who lost & gained-back 100 pounds, then took it off using CONTENTED HEARTS method.

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From the Publisher

GUIDE TO CONTENTED HEARTS written by D. Charles Van Fulpen. Contented Hearts, Inc., $19.95. An up-to-date survival guide with simple but expedient tips that lead to improved quality of life. Van Fulpen zeros-in on heart disease, right up there with cancer and stroke in mortality rates. This book gets to many points quickly, so potential victims can get on with it. The author identifes the six major risks most closely associated with heart disease. Mark them off: smoking, excess weight, high stress lifestyle, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and physical inactivity. Most of these can be changed most of the time

About the Author

D. Charles Van Fulpen, a healthcare communications specialist, is a former journalist and editor of UPDATE, a publication for physicians and medical personnel. After ten years of marketing healthcare information, products and services, she became aware of the growing need and market for consumer healthcare information about small problems that can easily develop into large, expensive problems. For example, how atherosclersosis (cholesterol build-up in arteries) can lead to heart disease. Her research has shown her that minimal changes in individual lifestyle - eating 10 percent less fat, getting a small amount of exercise and curbing stress - can decrease cholesterol, prevent athersosclerosis, and lower the risk for heart disease while increasing one's quality of life.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Contented Hearts; 1 edition (May 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0963756206
• ISBN-13: 978-0963756206
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,782,480 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great common sense guide to good health, December 6, 1999

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Jeff Macauley (Phoenix, Arizona) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Guide to Contented Hearts: Cardiac Risk Management : Cholesterol, High Blood Pressure Exercise, Stress, Weight, Diet (Paperback)

This easy to read primer is full of solid information that I'm finding very helpful as I adopt a healthier lifestyle. The quizzes were real eye openers and pointed up areas where I needed to pay attention. As follow-up, the author offers manageable ways to improve diet and exercise that are very easy to implement into my daily routine. I haven't tried all the recipes yet, but I really loved the Broiled Orange Roughy. At first I felt a little silly doing some of the stretches at work, but they really make a difference in the way I feel. This is a good common sense book.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thorough and Thoroughly Enjoyable, July 15, 1999

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This review is from: Guide to Contented Hearts: Cardiac Risk Management : Cholesterol, High Blood Pressure Exercise, Stress, Weight, Diet (Paperback)

A co-worker of mine recommended this book to me and I'm glad she did, because I found it quite informative and enjoyable. It's very reader-friendly. The text and ideas are easy to follow, they have a real flow. I particularly enjoyed the three case studies. They showed, in a very real way, how stress affects people from all walks of life. The Lifestyle Quiz, too, was a real help. I'm not sure I know of another of its kind. I recommend this book to people who have an interest in changing their lifestyles for the better. This book has a very warm, human approach. It definitely stands out.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Information that does NO wrong...., April 21, 2000

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Joe Tate - See all my reviews

This review is from: Guide to Contented Hearts: Cardiac Risk Management : Cholesterol, High Blood Pressure Exercise, Stress, Weight, Diet (Paperback)

Self-Help books are often a dime a dozen, with as many coming at you as there are day in the year. But what is different about Contented Hearts is that it is very readable to someone who is not well versed in self help books. A book that does not bombard you with technical terms but does actually inform you on the subject is a good buy, especially when the information could just prolong your life.